Word: stewardess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Miami." Though feminists were outraged by National's display of sexism, the airline enjoyed a 23% increase in passengers from 1971 to 1972, compared with 12% for the entire industry. Continental hopes for a similar pecuniary return from its new slogan, which it insists refers not just to stewardesses, but to pilots, mechanics and chefs as well. Meanwhile, Continental has already suggested sharp rejoinders for a stewardess to use when an overplayful passenger asks her to "move your tail." Sample answer...
...Stewardess Kathy Lloyd is lucky: she was hired as Ethel Kennedy's social secretary at Hickory Hill, Va. Pilots Mel Vos and John Stout are doing all right; they have gone into the tree-planting business northwest of Chicago. Some of their fellow crew members at United Air Lines are becoming postmen, salesmen and teachers. Others are still looking, and growing more desperate. For 16,500 U.S. airline employees suddenly out of work (of a total force of 300,000), the new lean look of air travel has brought a wrenching change...
...terrorists, who later identified themselves as Palestinian guerrillas, first struck at the Rome airport's security checkpoint during the early afternoon rush hour. "I was heading toward the security check, and up front I saw a tall, well-dressed young man," a British stewardess recalled. "As he approached the guards, he put his hand in his pocket and took out a pistol." Instantly, his companions-perhaps as many as seven -opened their overnight bags, took out submachine guns and began to spray gunfire in every direction...
...Stewardess Lari Hamel was knocked to the floor in the first-class aisle and four or five bodies fell on top of her; she managed to crawl to a wing exit and escape. In the rear of the plane, one passenger saw a guerrilla appear, gun in hand, and stop passengers from escaping out the rear ramp...
...congenial and interesting and yet not tiring. Many former regulars at her table have died, and others have simply drifted away. Often the duchess dines with either her present or former secretary. The current secretary was once a U.S. Foreign Service officer. The other is a onetime Air France stewardess. Her royal in-laws, numerous enough to fill a banquet hall, never approved of the marriage and have never sat at her table, though Prince Charles and Princess Alexandra come by for tea when they are in Paris. They call her Aunt Wallis...