Near the start of the story we see Derrida arriving in his flight to Friendship Airport, as it was called back then.
Friendship International Airport was dedicated on June 24, 1950. The airport was renamed Baltimore Washington International in 1973.This is what the airport looked like in 1967:
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The early Boeing 707s and Douglas DC-8s could not use Washington National Airport and Washington Dulles International Airport did not open until 1962, so Baltimore became Washington's jet airport in May–June 1959 when American and TWA began transcontinental 707 flights.(Wikipedia)
The arrival by airport of one of the main or supporting characters to open a movie is a classic story feature of that era. If we find out later that Derrida arrived some other way, and its important to the story, maybe we'll change the story, but for now we will go with this.
Did Derrida travel with his wife and child? Let's say he did not, for the time being. He was a last minute replacement speaker, after all. His wife and child will certainly become characters in the story, so add two more to the list dramatis personae, but let us suppose they did not come to Baltimore with him.
We see Derrida emerging from the aircraft. There are air hostesses at least two of them, on the plane and the tarmac. Also a gate attendant in the same hostess uniform is present he comes out into the airport itself, into the waiting area.
The air hostesses serve as another point of reference to cinema of that time, for nothing is more emblematic of those years than the crisply-attired flight attendants of the airlines that carried passengers between continents.
Come Fly With Me (1963)
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