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...motorcade. We were ushered through to the waiting Antonov-24 Turboprop on the apron. Two rather sullen stewardesses in creased olive-drab army-style uniforms helped us put our heavy typewriters on the shelves above the seats (contrary to international regulations), handed round candy before takeoff, then retreated to the rear of the 48-seat aircraft. A barely intelligible English-language announcement warned that "all passengers should register inflammables, corrosives, explosives, and radioactive materials with the cabin attendant before takeoff. Use of binoculars, cameras, and other optical equipment is not permitted during the flight...
...would also bring to nearly 400 the number of people who have died in Aeroflot katastrofy in the past five months. Just nine days earlier, a turboprop Ilyushin-18 carrying 106 known passengers and crew crashed into the Black Sea shortly after takeoff from the resort city of Sochi. No bodies were recovered. Last June a turboprop Antonov-10 crashed near Kharkov in the Ukraine, killing 108, many of them children on their way to summer holiday camp. In addition to the three Aeroflot tragedies, 156 people died in the crash of a Soviet-manufactured Ilyushin-62, operated by Interflug...
...designers to see the funny side of fashion. The topless bathing suit was a typical Gernreichian prank - and it drew plenty of publicity. When he unveiled his spring line in New York City last week, Gernreich brought the house down with a four-sleeved dress. It was a takeoff on the old - and newly fashionable - custom of draping a sweater over the shoulders and tying the sleeves loosely round the neck. On the Gernreich number, only the sweater sleeves exist; sewed to the shoulders of the dress, they can be tied stylishly in front...
...plunk down a 25% deposit. Agents must recruit a minimum of 40 people for each trip; all members of the group must fly both ways together and stay away at least seven days on charters in North America and ten days elsewhere. If a traveler changes his mind before takeoff and decides to scratch the trip, the new rules-which are scheduled to remain in effect on an experimental basis until Dec. 31, 1975 -give the agent some leeway for making refunds...
They are all based on real people, at any rate. Mrs. Earbore, the Tasteful Lady, is a takeoff on the country-club women of Grosse Pointe, Mich., whom Tomlin observed while she was growing up in Detroit. Edith Ann, the 5½-year-old thug-Tomlin's best known routine after Ernestine-derives from a little girl she met in a Pasadena hotel. "I wanted to do a child," she says, "and I'd probably thought about Edith Ann for years without being conscious of it. I had some trouble making her scruffy; the Laugh-In producers wanted...