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LEAD: Mr. and Mrs. Barry R. Weiss of Tenafly, N.J., have announced August wedding plans for their daughter, Janet Weiss, to Dr. Thomas J. Dwork, a son of Dr. and Mrs. Henry R. Dwork, also of Tenafly.

''If you take an apple and slice it too thin, what you get is applesauce,'' said Dr. Loren Baritz, who served as SUNY's provost and acting chancellor in the mid-1970's. In granting the university limited flexibility, the Legislature rejected the commission's call for a semi-independent corporation. If history is a guide, it may be equally difficult to get the panel's other recommendations approved. Dr. Baritz, now a professor of history at the University of Massachussets, said allocations to individual campuses had often been based more on political than educational considerations. ''Any time there was any consideration given to how we might close a campus,'' he said, ''there was such a racket, you'd think World War III had broken out.'' ''It's natural for every legislator to want to see his school enhanced rather than closed or diminished,'' said Malcolm Wilson, a member of the state commission who was Mr. [Nelson A. Rockefeller]'s lieutenant governor before succeeding him as governor in 1974.

The studies have linked bacteria that cause tumorous growths in plants with bacteria that cause an infection known since World War I as ''trench fever.'' ''It was surprising to me that the rickettsia had that relationship,'' Dr. [Carl R. Woese] said in an interview by telephone yesterday. ''It was unexpected.'' ''The fact that R. quintana groups with bacteria that are associated with plants, not with animals, suggests that rickettsia may have arisen as plant-associated bacteria, possibly plant pathogens, and through the plant-insect bridge may have evolved to be associated with mammals,'' said the report.

As an Arab and an American, the awful events unfolding in the gulf fill me with dread and sorrow. I have grown up with the spectacle of Arab and American interests in the Middle East for the most part in conflict. My assessment of American interests today as they have been acted apon and spoken about by President Bush now and in the past is that these interests are the unimpeded flow of relatively inexpensive and abundant Arab oil, the compliance of one or several Arab leaders with U.S. interests basically in protecting the flow of oil and not standing in the way of America's other major interest: Israel. We do have a tremendous economic stake in the Mideast. We cannot afford to have [Saddam Hussein] or anyone else who is unfriendly to the United States control nearly half of the world's oil supplies. The fact is that we are far more dependent on imported Mideast oil than we want to admit. For example, in 1973, when we had the first oil embargo, we were importing less than 30 per cent of our oil. President [Richard M. Nixon] declared Operation Independence, saying we would be free of imported oil in seven years. . . . The crisis ended, Mr. Nixon's plans were shelved, the next crisis came in '79, and at that time we were importing 40 percent of our oil. Hopefully, our military presence there will serve as a deterrent to Hussein's expansion, and our diplomatic and economic initiatives will be a factor in getting him back to his borders and getting all parties around a table for a negotiated settlement. . . . Our military presence must be temporary, for the longer they are there, the more hostilities they will engender. And that's why we must put at least as much energy into helping the Arab nations' summit succeed, led by Mubarak, as any other tactic.