Word: stewardesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...along. He finds comedy in everyday trials-a frustrating conversation with a child who keeps hanging up the phone, a speck of dirt in a glass of milk, TV commercials, a dentist ominously taking X rays. Perhaps best known is his airline routine ("Coffee, tea or milk?" chirps the stewardess, although the wing is on fire); because of the recent disasters, the sketch has been retired, but many airlines still use the record during stewardess training. Berman builds his long routines forward and backward from initial jokes, as in his newest piece, which grew around a forlorn conventioner...
...nightclubbing with: a 22-year-old Hawaiian beauty queen named Carol Ah You, who works for Great Lakes Air Lines and ac companied the President from San Fran cisco to Hawaii. Said Bung Karno, step ping off a charted Pan American DC-6B still staffed by favorite stewardess No. i, 25-year-old Joan Sweeney: "This has been much more successful than my earlier trips." But the old place was not much fun to come home to. Rebel and bandit fighting continued in Java, Sumatra, the Celebes and Borneo. The monetary reform so ambitiously decreed last year was a total...
Things are always bad in Indonesia, but when they get particularly chaotic, jaunty President Sukarno has a favorite tactic: he takes a trip. Last week he climbed aboard a chartered Pan American DC-6 (estimated cost: $250,000), smiled at his favorite stewardess-curvesome, redheaded Joanie Sweeney-and took off on a two-month world tour (India, Iraq, Soviet satellites, U.A.R., Africa and Cuba), his third in three years. Behind him he left a country bogged in inflationary chaos, a nasty diplomatic quarrel with Peking, a desultory but costly rebellion, and fresh political confusion created by his last-minute appointment...
Last week Capital was ordered to hire Miss Banks, after an informal attempt failed to persuade the line to give her a stewardess' job and thereby avoid a legal order-as TWA had done two years ago when a similar complaint was filed against it. Capital not only denied discrimination against Miss Banks, but argued that New York State had no jurisdiction since Capital's home office is in Washington...
...reinterviewed and employed, had she been white." Since Capital does a "substantial amount of its business in the State of New York." and conducts some 22 pre-employment procedures there, the commission argued that it has jurisdiction. Capital got 30 days in which to hire Patricia Banks as a stewardess or face contempt proceedings in New York courts. Of all the major U.S. airlines, only TWA and Mohawk have hired Negro stewardesses: two all told...