Word: chauffeur-driven
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...only natural, therefore, that Swint take precautions in getting to his job as general manager of the Ford subsidiary, Transax, in Cordoba. When he left for work on Thanksgiving Day, his chauffeur-driven car was followed by another car carrying two well-armed bodyguards. As the two cars prepared to pass a parked trailer truck obstructing one side of the road, a red Chevrolet pickup truck flashed past them, then swung across the road, completely blocking it. From behind, two Fiats drew up, cutting off any retreat. The ambush was complete...
...cases, the grannies encounter outright luxury. Coffe tells of an 82-year-old woman placed - supposedly for two weeks - with a banker's family near Aix-en-Provence. "Not only was she met by a chauffeur-driven car and served by maids," says Coffe, "but when I phoned to find out how she was doing, she said she had taken her first plane ride and was planning to winter in Morocco with the family...
Zilkha, a divorced father of two teenagers, operates out of a spartan office in an old confectionery factory and holds board meetings in the back seat of his chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce. Besides Zilkha, the company's only directors are his brother Ezra, chairman of Manhattan's Fidelity International Bank, and Mothercare's personnel and property officer. Zilkha himself has made a fortune on babies. Last July the company went public, and his holdings of Mothercare's stock are now worth $13 million...
...Years ago, when Sydney Gruson was running the now defunct New York Times international edition from Paris, his wife, Flora Lewis, sometimes used the telephone, office facilities and chauffeur-driven car of the paper's Paris bureau. In the absence of the bureau chief, she would sometimes occupy his private office-a practice that ended when one of the correspondents installed a special lock. The arrangement was curious because Lewis, a skilled journalist of wide experience, was then writing a column for Newsday. The couple then returned to New York, where he became a Times vice president...
...still lives in a rundown military barrack, has vowed to return the government to civilian hands in 1976. In the meantime, his army -which accounts for an exorbitant 34% of the $1.1 billion federal budget -is enjoying the perquisites of power. Staff officers ride through the capital in chauffeur-driven Mercedes sedans, just as civilian politicians used to do. In the expensive suburbs of Lagos, there are scores of new homes and apartment buildings whose owners are officers and gentlemen. Many Nigerians believe that corruption is worse in Lagos today than it was in 1966, when the army seized power...