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...duty Air Vietnam stewardess, Mrs. Nguyen Ngoc Quy expected to be waved through customs as usual when she stepped off her flight from Bangkok last month at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport. Instead, officials opened her baggage, revealing 19.8 lbs. of heroin and an ugly new quirk in American-South Vietnamese relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: Another Sort of H-Bomb | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

...Equally successful in racing, he spent close to $10 million for top-quality thoroughbreds, had 213 victories in the U.S. in nine years. After his acquaintance Fleming published Goldfinger, Engelhard emphasized the obvious by once showing up for a party in an orange sweatshirt and pretending to have a stewardess named Pussy Galore on one of his planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 15, 1971 | 3/15/1971 | See Source »

...washroom towel by switching from cloth to paper. By eliminating the more expensive blue cloth towels and going to all white, Eastern is saving $10,000 a year. The line has also adopted a unisex philosophy in passing out toy pins: formerly the wings given to girls were marked "Stewardess" and those given to boys were stamped "Pilot." Now they say "Eastern Air Lines." Savings: $9,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIRLINES: Does Your Flight Seem Different Lately? | 2/8/1971 | See Source »

...small Russian plane that had been hijacked late last month. Even so, the two students who took over the plane remained in Turkish custody, as did the Lithuanian father and son who forced the crew of an Aeroflot plane to land in Turkey in October and who killed a stewardess in the process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West: The Long Detour | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

Hint of a Swap. What were the Soviets up to? For one thing, they may have been trying to pressure Turkey into returning the father-and-son pair who carried off the first successful hijacking of a Soviet aircraft last month, killing an 18-year-old stewardess in the process. Turkish President Cevdet Sunay, however, declared that the matter would be handled not as a political decision, but by Turkish courts, where it is still pending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: Out of All Proportion | 11/9/1970 | See Source »

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