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...bomber (Van Heflin) on board, who is threatening to blow up the plane to give his wife (Maureen Stapleton) all the insurance money. Such churlish behavior endangers the crew of what must be the world's largest flying soap opera, including Captain Dean Martin and his pregnant girlfriend, Stewardess Jacqueline Bisset; Co-Captain Barry Nelson, home-loving father of seven; and cute little old Helen Hayes, who keeps stowing away aboard all kinds of flights...
After extracting my life history and an account of my activities that day, the FBI agent returned the book and left. Another hour later we were finally airborne; no bomb was found. A short time into the flight, a stewardess came up to me and asked what book I had that caused all the trouble. I handed my copy to her and she laughed...
...READINESS with which the FBI agent and the stewardess were willing to ascribe suspicion on the basis of my reading material amazed me. Opinions that are welcome in the free exchange of ideas in the university community become potentially subversive in the eyes of the FBI. The agent who questioned me seemed genuinely disappointed that I had no friends in Denver whom he could check on. My refusal to discuss my political philosophy with him evoked only a queer chuckled response that I must be "anti-Establishment." There came a point when the bomb scare seemed less threatening than...
...social scientist, Gerzon avoids the droll stories, the epigrams and the sassy obscenity that made Kunen's Strawberry Statement so palatable. Whatever flavor there is in this book comes from a few sparse anecdotes which record the author's trivial brushes with the Establishment. In one encounter, a hawkish stewardess starts a discussion of the Vietnam war. She is confounded...
...plane circled in slow and easy over the Delaware and a few dozen destroyers in mothballs, past an old army base, its barracks down to black skeletons. The wheels touched down and a stewardess told us to stay in our seats...