May 19, 1989

LEAD: The Federal Aviation Administration yesterday ordered the first of a series of repairs to the nation's aging airliners that will eventually involve 2,200 airplanes and cost the airline industry hundreds of millions of dollars.

LEAD: A report on New York State's energy needs warned today that additional generating capacity must be built within three years but cautioned that reliance on traditional energy sources will cause ''alarming'' increases in acid rain and other airborne pollution.

LEAD: The most immediate tangible result promised here today from Mikhail S. Gorbachev's Beijing visit was Peking duck and a dozen other dishes. The arrival of 29 Chinese chefs is being expedited because of the summit meeting, according to officials working on the refurbishing of Moscow's dowdy, long-Russified

LEAD: At Pier 60 on the Hudson, at 20th Street, prospective buyers pursued their manifold destiny yesterday, milling around and peering into the 25 automobiles being auctioned by the Department of Motor Vehicles, which had snatched them from the streets because their owners had ignored wads of parking tickets.

LEAD: Several citadels of higher education dot this state's academic map: Yale, Wesleyan, Trinity. As for the University of Connecticut at Storrs, ''they call us a cow college,'' said a spokesman, Walt McGowan.