Word: chauffeur
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Grimly the three men in the Dutch compound now stoke their own furnace and chauffeur their limousines. The diplomats' ladies now do their own scrubbing, cooking and marketing. At first the Pakistani embassy gallantly offered to drive the Dutch children to the foreign colony's school, but after taking the youngsters once, retracted the offer lest it lose its own Chinese drivers. At another embassy a Chinese cook refused to bake a supply of cookies after he learned that a Dutchman was coming to dinner. Fearing that they too might get the treatment, foreign diplomats now tend...
Careless Wiver. In Detroit, Hartwell Johnson won a divorce after testifying that his wife used her maiden name, went around introducing him as her chauffeur...
...sparring with New York Journal-American Photographer Melvin Finkelstein. The photographer claimed that Sinatra tried to run him down with a rented Cadillac limousine outside Manhattan's Harwyn Club. As Sinatra left with Model Nan Whitney, Finkelstein got set to take a picture, whereupon Frankie cried to his chauffeur: "Get him! Kill that bastard." Scoffed Sinatra: "What I read in the papers must have happened to three other guys...
...accessories and usually optional equipment. These range from a $25 chrome curb-guard molding, up through electric doorlocks ($59.15 for four doors) to dual radios ($152.70 apiece) and dual air conditioners ($440 apiece). When the retractable curved-glass partition between the front and back seats is up, passengers and chauffeur can listen to different radio programs in individually adjusted air conditioning. Like the original model T, the limousine comes in just one color, black...
...political paroxysm shaking all Africa has even sent tremors into the calm heartland of the Congo. Last year Belgium permitted limited elections for the first time, and 13 black and five white mayors took office. Settled in modernistic offices, well paid, and furnished with chauffeur-driven Opel sedans, the African mayors were supposed to act as agents of Belgian authority. Instead, some assumed the old prerogatives of tribal chiefs and seized firm political control of the native communes. Recently African intellectuals in Léopoldville united to form the Congo's first native political party, with...