‘A Moment of Pleasant Indecision’

‘A Moment of Pleasant Indecision’

In the summer of 1957 a young woman named Shirley Kubik got a job attending to passengers on Trans World Airlines. After the company determined that she met its strict physical and lifestyle requirements—clear skin, aged twenty to twenty-seven, between 100 and 135 pounds, between five-foot-two and five-foot-eight, good vision, unwed—she was outfitted with a […]