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Eleanorean Durability. It was an amaz ing display, not only of the Eleanorean character and its impact upon the feverishly nationalistic (and often anti-Ameri can) East, but of Eleanorean durability. Mrs. Roosevelt is now 67 years old. She had just concluded three exhausting months as a delegate to the United Na tions session in Paris. She had flown through the Middle East with rubberneck stops at Beirut, Damascus, Amman, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. She had prefaced her tour of India with a fast week of seeing slums and soldiery, of meeting voluble Moslem dignitaries and veiled Moslem women in the Pakistan cities of Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar. Her tour has not been without moments of conflict. Her visit to Pakistan aggravated a female feud between Begum Lia-quat AH Khan, widow of Pakistan's late Prime Minister, and Miss Fatima Jinnah, sister of Founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah. The Begum had invited Mrs. Roosevelt to Pakistan. Outflanked, Miss Fatima stonily boycotted the famous guest and ordered the Pakistani Girl Scouts, whom she heads, to boycott her too. Mrs. Roosevelt immediately asked to call. Miss Fatima at first refused to receive her. When a meeting was finally arranged, however, Mrs. Roosevelt was so bland about it, so pleased, so regally unaware of any intended rudeness, so utterly, ut- terly nice that 1) the Begum's followers were able to say that Miss Fatima was small, 2) Miss Fatima's followers were able to announce that Miss Fatima had a truly magnetic personality, and 3) both camps were left with the uneasy feeling that Mrs. Roosevelt had scored some kind of indefinable female victory over both.