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Article: Cocktails to armed cockpits; Once, their jobs provided glamorous opportunities for young women. Now, flight attendants are confronted with SARS, terrorism, and possible unemployment.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- April 19, 2003
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Byline: Liz Fedor; Staff Writer
Diane Anselmo's hips almost prevented her from having a 39-year career as a Northwest Airlines flight attendant.
"It wasn't so much that my hips were too big," said Anselmo, recalling that her hips were measured during her job interview. "They were an inch and a quarter disproportionate to the rest of my measurements."
That was November 1963, when U.S. airlines were selling glamour to adventure-seeking stewardess-wannabes like Anselmo. Back then, businessmen comprised the majority of U.S. airline consumers, and the carriers aimed to please by selecting young, attractive women as stewardesses.
Today, the job of flight attendants ...