Company hiring physicals were really crazy—stress EKG, AA did an electroencephalogram of your brain and a glucose tolerance test (about a gallon of simple syrup to begin with), 20/20 uncorrected vision was universal, no glasses. Age maximum until the discrimination suits started was pretty much 31 and out of contention. I was the oldest in my EAL class at 33. A friend squeaked under AA’s 30.5 age max by weeks. Until about 1983-85, it was very selective, uselessly so.

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