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...Caribbean-born stewardess alleged that her airline discriminated against her by asking that she desist from flaunting her voodoo equipment...
...hurry. So what does he do? (Background--he has no money in the bank, and he has no credit cards.) So he goes to Logan Airport, gets on the four o'clock shuttle, and sits down (you've got to sit on the shuttle--no standees). The stewardess eventually comes down the aisle, taking cash, checks, and credit cards from everybody. S. has a brainstorm. He gives the stewardess his Bursars card, and says, "Charge it." (Do you think I'm making this up? Well, I'm not.) "Charge it,'; he says. So what does the stewardess do? (Answer later...
...Omaha business executive emits an electronic hiccup; its owner leaves a conference table to phone his stockbroker. Beep. A volunteer fireman in Rockville Center, N.Y., jumps out of bed and into his uniform. Bweet. A Houston truck driver has a new delivery; and across town-bip-bip-an airline stewardess leaves her restaurant table to report for duty. Bweet. A vinyl-booted siren strutting her stuff on Times Square has a call-in customer...
...beepers' appeal must be partly credited to the status they bestow on the wearer. Salesmen visiting clients sometimes set theirs off manually, then announce they must leave to close a $10,000 deal. Says Chicago-based Airline Stewardess Sonja Lied: "When it goes off in a restaurant, people think I must be somebody very important." Still, the little boxes do have a knack for going off at the wrong moments: in church, at the symphony, in bed. Husbands, wives and lovers have been known to banish the gadgets from the bedroom. Could those little blurps and beeps...
...three fatal accidents, but only 45 people were killed in 1976?compared with 124 the year before. Flying by commercial jet in the U.S. is now at least 15 times as safe per passenger-mile as driving in a car. The passenger who shows his ticket to the smiling stewardess and buckles himself into his narrow seat has a 99.999% chance of arriving at his destination safe and sound. Indeed, flying has become so routine that the notably pragmatic insurance companies charge pilots no more for policies than they do ribbon clerks...