Word: chauffeur
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...chairs buzz back into a lounging position. In the rear of the front seat are a 17-inch television set, a high-fidelity tape recorder, and a small bar (four glasses, two bottles). A telephone system will permit the President to talk to his aide up front without the chauffeur's listening in, or (by shortwave radio) to the presidential palace and army headquarters. A weapons compartment will hold two submachine guns...
...Physicist Leo Szilard, leaping in thought from laboratory fission to atomic bomb, set out to urge the U.S. Government to get an atomic-research project going. Reasoning that a letter to President Roosevelt would have maximum impact if signed by Einstein, Szilard recruited his fellow Hungarian Edward Teller to chauffeur him out to Peconic Bay, N.Y., where Einstein was vacationing. Einstein signed, and the eventual result was the Manhattan Engineer District project that produced history's first atomic bomb...
...fondly named the famed "Big Bertha" cannon in World War I. Other relatives followed, presenting greetings and family gifts. Courteously, bowing slightly, Alfried Krupp* received a workers' delegate who stiffly presented him with a large steel candelabrum made in the Krupp factories. Then he settled into a black, chauffeur-driven BMW sedan for the 15-minute ride into Essen, the center of his empire and a city built almost entirely by the Krupps. There the day's most important ceremony began. On Müchener Strasse, hard by the sprawling Krupp works, he was ceremoniously presented with...
...arch-brigand Mendoza (also the Devil in the Don Juan scene). Cavada Humphrey turned in an adequate performance as the misunderstood Violet Robinson, as did Robert Brustein and Thomas Hill as her husband and father-in-law respectively. I particularly enjoyed John Wynne-Evans as Straker, Tanner's Cockney chauffeur...
...calls "sightems" or "babble-by-the-bay." Sample Caenanities: "Sign on a Volkswagen: Help Stamp Out Cads"; classified ad for a new home: "All-electric family kitchen, including natural-birth cabinets"; one matron to another matron: "No, she's not keeping the car any more. Just the chauffeur...