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...feast begins in late April or May, when the caterpillars first emerge from their eggs. As they finish off one tree, they swing easily to another on silken threads they secrete. Their vagabond life accounts for the name gypsy. Millions can infest a small wooded patch. As they crunch, dropping excrement and half-eaten leaves, they sound like steady rain. Some homeowners complain that the noise actually keeps them awake. The caterpillars crawl up walls, spread over driveways, drop into plates and glasses at backyard barbecues. Last month Massachusetts officials got a call from a badly flustered woman. So many...
...Ambassador Kirkpatrick did a superb job, which has been characteristic of her performance at the United Nations from the outset." So said Secretary of State Alexander Haig last week about Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. That gracious praise was not exactly spontaneous: Haig was scrambling to patch up the damage done by leaks from his own aides, who had criticized Kirkpatrick's handling of a U.N. resolution condemning Israel for its bombing of Iraq's nuclear reactor. The sniping infuriated not only Kirkpatrick but the White House as well. It deeply embarrassed Haig and provided more...
...plot might sound sudsy but it has a sting unknown to the soaps. Helen (Valerie French), a middle-aged lady of slippery virtue, deserts her teen-age daughter Jo (Amanda Plummer) to marry a piratical con man in a Hathaway patch (John Carroll) who is visibly her junior. Jo, a kind of spitfiery waif, gets involved with a black sailor (Tom Wright) who ships out leaving her pregnant. A good Samaritan homosexual (Keith Reddin) moves into Jo's dreary unheated flat to care...
...well. Thus on Saturday morning, though the story commanded headlines, not one paper printed the magazine's excerpts. The Guardian came close, paraphrasing portions touching on Prune Minister Eraser's sense of humor and Diana's reported surprise at learning her Prince had a bald patch on his head. For the time being, at least, monarchy-mad British readers would have to content themselves with sanitized hints...
...Quad is located in the midst of a residential neighborhood, and any loud rock concert on a Sunday afternoon would surely be annoying to some of the Quad's neighbors. The K-House triangle, on the other hand, is bordered by three University houses and the IAB. This patch of dirt that the University annually prunes to golf course lushness (just in time for the alumni's June arrival) would be an ideal place for such a concert: any excess noise would disturb only Harvard students. Other possible sites, the river bank next to Weld boat house, or Soldiers' Field...