Which stranded motorist would be helped the soonest: a pregnant woman, a little old lady, a messy hippie, a smartly dressed career woman, or a scantily dressed sex symbol?
A Florida Space Coast newspaper decided to find out, and ran a test on U. S. Route One with a twenty-two year old actress, Sally Mullins, who played the distressed driver in five different roles:
Career woman: standing by the side of her broken down Pontiac, dressed in a double-breasted suit, holding up a "stop and please help sign" - sixty-two cars passed and a minute and a half before a man pulled over and offered assistance.
Pregnant woman: disguised with about eight months of padding under her blouse, this time more than one hundred cars and two and a half minutes passed by before two paramedics made a U-turn in t…