IVIV stewardesses/stewardii

[Doug Millison]

The Gordita Beach stewardesses or should I say stewardii might have  
something to do with the SABRE airline reservations system that IBM  
built, capitalizing on US government investments in computers for  
military applications, as discussed in the Flamm book referenced  
earlier:

http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0908&msg=140925&sort=date

"flatland guys in for a night of hustling stewardesses, flatland  
ladies with all-too-grounded day jobs hoping to be mistaken for  
stewardesses" (4)