Word: diaz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Celio Diaz Jr. was not interested in the glamorous image, the clothes or the chance to meet eligible, attractive men, but he did want to be the male version of a stewardess, an airline cabin attendant. He had his own reason: he simply wanted to fly round the world...
...Diaz asked Pan American for the job-and was turned down. Acting under a section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was generally intended to provide equal rights for women, he then sued Pan Am. The airline, resting its case on an exception in the law, contended that the sex of a cabin attendant is a "bona fide occupational qualification," as it probably is for actors or actresses required to play male or female roles. Pan Am added that women were clearly better at "providing reassurance to anxious passengers, giving courteous personalized service and, in general, making flights...
Last month, however, a three-judge federal appeals court in New Orleans gave Diaz a first-class victory, ruling that the exception applied only "when the essence of the business operation would be undermined...
Since things couldn't get worse, Dartmouth has improved this spring. Led by top scorer and captain Mike Diaz, the Indians have won two non-League games this year...
...elements, leaving nothing to exist as a pure entity (like each image in a montage style), nothing to operate outside of a natural dialectical context. Rocha sees this kind of context as a constant, being a Marxist, and portrays no character without a dual, self-contradictory, internally dialectical nature. Diaz, for example, is continually marching around carrying the black flag of the labor movement in one hand and a crucifix in the other. Martins tells his story, alternating extreme long-shots for a bare objectivity with the jerkiness of hand-held shots that move with the dynamics of a scene...