Word: stewardess
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...curtain? Each of my flights leaves me to ponder this question. Is it that my stewardess may get confused as to which social class she's attending to this week? Perhaps it's to prevent the elite from seeing that there are others on their airplane. No, surely they're smarter than that. Clearly, I conclude, it is a Maoist declaration of my proper place in a society that exists only at 32,000 feet...
...well," I say to myself, "At least I'll get my money's worth." I shift in my seat to face the stewardess with the beverage cart...
...this is the best part. The stewardess opens a can of orange juice and pours half of the can into a cup filled with ice. She hands it to me with a corporate smile...
...should have met in an elevator bank in 1969, since they lived on the same floor of a New York City building near Madison Square Garden. But while Schlant was many things--a German World War II survivor, a former Pan Am stewardess, an emigre, a divorced mother (she was married to an Atlanta doctor for five years and had a daughter, Stephanie St. Onge, now 40), an older woman (she's eight years Bradley's senior), a comparative literature Ph.D. and professor--she was not a sports fan. She says she had no idea who "Dollar Bill...
WASHINGTON: Can anybody rewire this plane? With all the calm panic-prevention skills of an airline stewardess, the National Transportation Safety Board recommended Tuesday the rewiring of fuel tanks in more than 750 Boeing 747 jets. ?Unsafe conditions... may exist in other older B-747s and should be addressed by the Federal Aviation Administration,? wrote NTSB chief Jim Hall Tuesday...