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...came myself." The stocky former army chief of staff, a Pathan who came to power in 1 969 when widespread strikes and dis orders forced President Ayub Khan to step down, showed his quick temper last week during an impromptu speech at a late-night dinner in Islamabad. Lash ing out at Indira Gandhi, he said at one point: "If that woman thinks she will cow me, I refuse to take it. If she wants a war, I'll fight...
...black literature of childhood, the book will not rank with Christina Stead's horror story of family life, The Man Who Loved Children. Lucia is less a person than an argument. Most adults, the book suggests, are losers, and most children feel the lash of a loser's fury a hundred times a day. To make the point, Author Grant makes Lucia's life a masochistic nightmare in a gallery of Halloween horribles. Her mother is a festering grievance, her father an intellectual wimp, her aunts and uncles high-church lobsters of menacing respectability...
...Eleanor and Franklin, Lash...
...Eleanor and Franklin, Lash...
Actually, Eleanor was at home mostly among women. In the '20s, as she began her public career, she made several close women friends. "She always felt she had shared both her husband and children with another woman," writes Lash. "She needed people to whom she was the one and only and upon whom she could lavish help, attention, tenderness." With two such friends, Nancy Cook, a Democratic party worker, and Marion Dickerman, a teacher, she even built a house near Hyde Park. She considered it home; linen was initialed jointly as EMN. Later the three quarreled, and Eleanor turned...