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An Urgent Standby Passenger
While in Korea, Gov. Mike Smith of Utah was relaxing in the VIP lounge the Seoul airport, awaiting his flight to Japan. At the same moment , his press secretary, Jenny Varela, was being told at the ticket counter that she had no ticket.
After insisting she had to make the flight because she was with a U. S. governor, an American embassy aide intervened. Varela got a standby ticket and boarded just before take off.
Regaining her composure, Varela went to the front of the plane to tell Smith of her adventure. He was not there. She later found
out that the governor was told that he had been bumped by an urgent standby passenger.It was Varela.
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