Word: chauffeur
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Verbally, and for the best of causes, she has ridden as rough as daddy-and the ride's not over. As her Negro chauffeur drove Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 81, through placid residential Washington, he nearly collided with a taxi, whose white Southern driver jumped out, yelling: "You black s.o.b., what do you think you're doing?" At which Teddy Roosevelt's daughter rolled down her window, fastened the cab driver with a cool blue glare, and demanded: "You white s.o.b., what do you think you're doing...
...foot longer than Ford's entry into the chauffeur field, the Grand Mercedes is twice the car. It ought to be. The price, f.o.b. New York, is $23,500, enough to buy two LTDs with a couple of Volkswagens thrown in. With two rear-facing club chairs in the passenger saloon, "der Grosse" seats seven, sports enough engineering advances and luxury gadgets to make the most jaded automaniac drool...
Limited Trust. The Khrushchevs apparently have been assigned a six-room apartment in a pillared and balconied building next to the Canadian embassy on Staro-Konyushenny (Old Stable) Lane. Another sign of Khrushchev's relatively comfortable retirement was the chauffeur-driven ZIL limousine in which he and Wife Nina rode off from the apartment last week. They were headed just around the corner to vote in the municipal elections. Walking under a huge sign that read "Dobro Pozhalovat" (Welcome), Khrushchev waved off a voting official who signaled him to the head of the line. When he reached the table...
...week's end, the doctor's wife was released after her husband agreed to issue a Communist-style statement denouncing the country's social inequalities. The police were luckier with Carlos Mejia. They freed him and arrested four persons, including the Mejia family's ex-chauffeur. But it was one of their few successes. In all the cases reported last year, not a single kidnaper has been brought to trial...
Delon keeps his head, and, momentarily out of peril, goes to work as chauffeur for a sleek, wealthy young widow (Lola Albright) and her nubile cousin (Jane Fonda). In their Italianate castle, practically everything is extraordinary. The cousin pretends to be the maid, although she wears Balmain originals. The widow talks to her mirror, and with reason. Behind its one-way glass dwells a former chauffeur, Vincent, missing since he murdered her husband two years earlier. Delon, who serves his employer unstintingly up to a point, eventually balks. "You and Vincent want to kill me," he whispers, embracing...