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Only a generation ago, a woman who wanted a career in aviation could expect to climb only as high as purser, or head flight attendant on a passenger jet. But last year a woman was named president of the world's most successful airline. Every major U.S. airline has at least one woman in a top executive position. Six of the nation's nine largest carriers have a woman as general counsel--the highest concentration in any major U.S. industry. Women have even taken over such traditionally male posts as chief financial officer and chief of pilots. And their colleagues...
...visiting journalist, he saw it reflected in the tired eyes of a middle-aged woman on a Moscow bus; in the frightened obedience of a man when a Soviet policeman shook his finger at the man; in a jab in the back when he offended a Yalta ferry purser. Says Furst, who talks with the same cinematic vigor that fills his six fine spy novels: "I thought, I'll pay him back when I get to the typewriter...
...from a sharp prickling sensation to mild hypertension. Then she heard about St. John's wort, a medicinal herb that has been used for centuries in teas and tinctures. "I figured it couldn't be any worse than the medication I was already taking," says Bergen, 49, an airline purser from San Diego, Calif. "Then, after two or three weeks, it dawned on me. I felt balanced and good. I felt happy...
More committal was recently re-elected Rep. Fred Grandy '70 (D-lowa), perhaps best known for his portrayal of "Gopher," the bumbling assistant purser on the television series "The Love Boat...
Close Quarters thus begins in anticlimax. The unnamed old warship is wallowing through the torrid zone west of Africa. Talbot buys another book of blank paper from the ship's purser and resolves to continue writing without quite knowing why: "There is an inevitable difference between this journal, meant for, for, I do not know for whom, and the first one meant for the eyes of a godfather who is less indulgent than I pretended. In that volume I had all my work done for me." His surviving fellow passengers do not strike Talbot as promising heroes or heroines...