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...centuries of American politics, there have been only three women Governors, and all three-Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming, Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson of Texas and Lurleen Wallace of Alabama-followed in their husbands' footsteps. Congresswoman Ella Grasso, 55, of Windsor Locks, Conn., is not accustomed to following in anyone's footsteps; her husband of 32 years is a retired school principal, and the toehold she won in the statehouse in Hartford was strictly her own achievement...
...years ago, Nicolas Freeling committed a rare and shocking crime which might be described as protagonisticide. In Aupres de Ma Blonde, with no advance warning, he killed off his own central character, a laconic Amsterdam detective named Van der Valk, through whose human but gritty sensibility the author had previously filtered a dozen of the best psychological suspense novels written in Europe since...
...attack on Nahariya, the Palestinians landed on the municipal beach in a small dinghy and sneaked into town in civilian clothes. They were soon discovered by one of the civilian patrols that have been organized in border settlements as a result of the recent fedayeen raids on Qiryat Shemona, Ma'alot and Shamir kibbutz. Shooting started, and the Palestinians ducked into an apartment house for protection...
...designed to pick up footprints, fedayeen have apparently managed to sneak unobserved over the border from Lebanon to carry out terror attacks inside Israel. Although at least 25 Palestinians have been spotted and killed within the past month, other commandos killed 46 Israelis in attacks on Qiryat Shemona and Ma'alot. Last week the Palestinians struck again, this time at a border kibbutz called Shamir eleven miles from Qiryat Shemona. The four fedayeen died in a battle with kibbutzniks, but not before they had slain three women in the community...
...microbopper parable out of Oliver Twist. There on the Queen Mary, docked at Long Beach, Calif., was little Lena Zavaroni, 10, the Scottish youngster with the big Garland voice who topped the Common Market charts in 1973 with her recording of Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me. As she gyrated with prepubescent salaciousness at the end of a U.S. promotion tour, her managers Phil and Dorothy Solomon looked on with satisfaction. "Our biggest problem in England," said Phil, "is the antiquated work laws for children. Why, Lena can only give 40 performances a year." Noting that...