Word: stewardess
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rugs; the stuff may be pleasing to the passengers' eyes and pay off in ticket sales, but it can generate black, toxic fumes in a fire. To save weight, and make easy changes in the cabin configuration, seats are not moored to the floor as firmly as possible. Stewardess training is sometimes more of a brief charm school than a careful safety course. The lines have also handled safety drills and demonstrations in the cabin casually for fear of scaring away passengers. Recently, United pilots began to urge passengers to "pay strict attention" to the drills, but so many...
...handled pistols in the cockpit, and has a considerable gun collection, to which he added in Honolulu with the purchase of a .357 Magnum and a symbolically-named Colt .45 Peacemaker. He also picked up a .22 revolver for the demure Madame Ky, a beauteous former Air Viet Nam stewardess whom he married after the divorce of his first wife. With 4,000 hours' flying time, Ky has only partly succeeded in letting his duties as Premier ground him. On a state visit to Formosa recently, he took time out to try a U.S. F-104 Starfighter, snapping smartly...
Married. Henry Fonda, 60, Hollywood's Jack-of-all-parts turned bewildered father of Broadway's Generation; and Shirlee Mae Adams, 33, former American Airlines stewardess; he for the fifth time (his others: Actress Margaret Sullavan, Socialites Frances Brokaw, Susan Blanchard and Afdera Franchetti); in Mineola, L.I., where New York Supreme Court Justice Edwin R. Lynde sternly admonished: "No couple I have married has broken apart. I don't expect...
...then, that's just what the story of Pierre is all about. Pierre, married for fifteen years to Franca, falls impulsively in love with Nicole, a young air-line stewardess, setting up Truffaut's traditional triangle. His love for her proceeds by starts of pure sexual drive and by stops of convention and respectability. Truffaut, to parallel Pierre, turns on the emotion at the level of characterization and turns it off with a plot of continuous cliches. As Pierre becomes increasingly trapped by his situation, the tension between your sympathy and disgust makes you more and more uncomfortable...
Died. Ellen Church Marshall, 60, first U.S. airline stewardess, on an 18-passenger, United Air Lines tri-motor; of head injuries received in a fall from a horse; in Terre Haute...