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...didn’t really put a lot of thought into what I was going to do,” he says. Despite the fact that firefighting had given his cousin a broken back and his uncle waist-down paralysis, Brogan boarded a flight back to Cambridge...
...decision by a federal judge last week closed the book on a long-gone era in which flirting with airline passengers came perilously close to being considered a stewardess's duty. During the 1960s, United Airlines, like its competitors, preferred young, single women as flight attendants, reasoning that they made the skies, well, friendlier. In 1970 a class-action lawsuit was filed on behalf of 1,720 women who had been forced to quit United when they married. Last week U.S. District Judge James Moran approved a $37 million settlement in the marathon case...
Under the deal, United will reinstate 475 flight attendants, in addition to 400 it has already rehired. Each will receive between $9,000 and $22,000 in back pay and benefits. Some 890 other plaintiffs who will not return may also receive part of the payout. Said Thomas Meites, an attorney for the flight attendants: "It's a terrific settlement. It's too bad it took so long to get it." AVIATION Mayday for Flying Tigers...
...program. Ashton-Tate quickly followed suit, abandoning copy protection for all its products. Said Chairman Edward Esber: "Sooner or later, you've got to trust your customer." Last week Microsoft announced that it is "going bare" on the last of its business programs, leaving protection only on its popular Flight Simulator game...
...Bolshevik Revolution, which stripped the clan of rank and property and launched it into exile. There were Nabokov's university years at Cambridge; his ascension as "Sirin," the pseudonymous literary star of the Russian migr communities of Berlin and Paris; the coming of World War II; and the flight to America with Wife Vera and Son Dmitri. Colorful details from this period include Nabokov's career as a teacher at Wellesley and Cornell, his cross-country butterfly hunts, his friendship and falling-out with Edmund Wilson and the sensational success of Lolita, which freed Nabokov from the academy...