After serving for two years and five months in such posts as Newport, R.I., and Jacksonville, Fla., and on the waters of the Mediterranean, Navy Lieutenant (j.g.) David Eisenhower, 25, will return to Washington next month to seek his fortune in civilian life—though not without a little help from his friends. Waiting for him will be a $110,000 brick rambler in suburban Bethesda, Md., picked out by his wife Julie and her mother Pat Nixon but bought by C.G. ("Bebe") Rebozo, the President's businessman pal. The Eisenhowers will pay an undisclosed amount of rent, thus allowing Bebe, who has made millions in real estate and other ventures, to write off some of the expenses on his house. Its value has already increased, thanks to the cozy living quarters that the Secret Service has built in the rec room for its agents. With dream house in hand, all David needs now is a job. He says that he might do a little writing or perhaps take a Government job, though with the budget cutbacks, that might be a tough field to break into. But Bebe says he knows a man . . .
"Being a woman has never hindered me. It has never caused me any unease, never given me an inferiority complex. Men have always been good to me." Golda Meir, the 74-year-old Premier of Israel, talking to Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaei for Ms., decided to set a few things straight. Ben-Gurion's calling her "the only man in my Cabinet" was "just a legend." Had she ever killed anyone in Israel's years of war? "No . . . I learned to shoot, of course, but I've never had to kill anyone. I'm not saying it with relief: there's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill."
Does the battle of the sexes boil down to nothing more than who brings home the bacon? In Austin, Texas, to encourage women to organize locally for child-care centers and improved salaries and working conditions, Women's Lib Spokeswoman Gloria Steinem seemed to be saying so. Said Gloria: "I think Jacqueline Onassis has a very clear understanding of marriage. I have a lot of respect for women who win the game with rules given you by the enemy."
What Joseph Lash didn't tell about Eleanor and Franklin in his recent bestselling, two-volume biography of Eleanor Roosevelt, her second son Elliott was spelling out in the April issue of Ladies' Home Journal. In the first of two excerpts from his forthcoming book, An Untold Story: The Roosevelts of Hyde Park, Elliott writes that "Mother had performed her duty in marriage—five living children were testimony to that. She wanted no more, but her bland ignorance of how to ward off pregnancy left her no choice except abstinence." So, he contends, his mother had no sex with F.D.R. after 1916. Lash's book had recounted F.D.R.'s long-running affair with Eleanor's special secretary Lucy Page Mercer. Elliott Roosevelt now claims that his father had a hitherto unknown affair with another secretary, Marguerite ("Missy") LeHand, during his marriage. Elliott's siblings—James, Franklin Jr., John and Anna Roosevelt Halsted—have signed a joint statement dissociating themselves from the book. -