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. -

Carol Hollywell is the heroine of The Last of the Southern Girls, the first novel by Willie Morris, ex-editor of Harper's. A headstrong and hoydenish native of De Soto Point, Ark., with a flawless face and figure, the lady sounds suspiciously like his great and good friend from North Carolina, Barbara Howar, the unofficial director of Washington fun and games during the L.B.J. years. By no coincidence, Barbara is also publishing her autobiography, Laughing All the Way, and there is, she admits, a certain parallel between the two books. "I have learned that one does not talk in one's sleep around a writer." Morris, she said, squirreled away material "while we gazed at the moon." Both books were written in nine months "when there was an absolute cleavage in our relationship." But Barbara was hardly magnolia-mouthing the whole thing: "He has his heroine involved with a Congressman. Honey, I've never taken up with a Congressman in my life. I'm such a snob I've never gone below the Senate."

So many actresses were arriving in Philadelphia that anyone who noticed might have thought that some face lifter or take-it-off ranch was doing land-office business. The stars were there for the out-of-town run of the revival of Clare Boothe Luce's 1936 hit The Women. With 35 actresses in the cast, The Women might almost be Actors' Equity's answer to Equal Opportunity Employment, since two big Broadway shows have all-male casts--That Championship Season with five men and The Changing Room with 22. One minor problem with the show, which includes Myrna Loy, Alexis Smith, Rhonda Fleming and Kim Hunter, was that the stars had final approval on all photographs taken. Group shots were virtually impossible. Obviously, however, not all the actresses were publicity shy.

"I knew this was a friendly audience when I spotted 19 of my 23 vice presidential choices." George McGovern was flipping his political pancakes at Washington's annual Gridiron Dinner. "I wanted to run for President in the worst way--and I did. I also wanted to be President very badly, but Mr. Nixon is already doing that." McGovern added, "We opened the door to the Demcratic Party, and all the Democrats walked out." He promised to support Nixon if he's right: "After all, we have only one President--two Secretaries of State, maybe, but only one President."

Maybe American politics could stand a little transcendental meditation. Or so Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the former guru of the Beatles and Mia Farrow, told the Illinois house of representatives when he showed up in Springfield as the guest of Representaive W.J. ('Bingo Bill") Murphy. Only last May, Bingo Bill pushed through a resolution encouraging the teaching of transcendental meditation, the Maharishi's technique of mind relaxation, on IIlinois college campuses and in state drug programs. Seeking some serenity of his own, Governor Daniel Walker asked the visiting guru to explain the state's new budget, about which the press had been giving him a lot of grief. The Maharishi answered: "When the world turns to transcendental meditation, the world's problems will be less and the budget will be smiling all the time." Marveled the Governor: "A smiling budget. How about that!"

Some mysteries are perhaps better left unsolved. Celebrating his 65th birthday in Washington where he is appearing in Pirandello's Henry IV at the Kennedy Center, British Actor Rex Harrison confessed that he had nicknamed himself "Sexy Rexy" because it rhymed. "I was christened Reginald Carey Harrison so I called myself 'Rex.' What if I had been named 'Larry'?"

American Pianist Byron Janis has an uncanny knack for digging up rare manuscripts of Freederic Chopin. Exploring the archives at Yale University, Janis was drawn to a dusty folder thought to contain "just a bunch of old papers." They turned out to include two priceless scores, in Chopin's own hand, of the Waltz in G Flat Major, Opus 70. Five years ago Janis had discovered another, later version of the same waltz, along with other Chopin pieces, in a box marked "Old Clothes" in the archives of the Chateau de Thoiry outside Paris.

Like many affluent American executives, Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, 66, is wild about gadgets. To cut down on his smoking, he carries a Swiss cigarette case with a timer lock that allows him one American filter-tip every hour. Hunting, he sports a matched pair of handmade English shotguns. Driving, he has the choice of the Cadillac limousine that Richard Nixon gave him, a Citroen-Maserati given him by the French, and a 1972 Rolls-Royce as well as several Russian-built cars. And now he has acquired the gadget of all gadgets --a video-phone system in his Kremlin office that links Brezhnev to his top Party Secretaries and key ministers.

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