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...Dwight Eisenhower. Moreover, for a family man there was the matter of personal sacrifice. As mayor, Wagner gets $40,000 a year in salary, $25,000 a year tax-free for expenses, the rent-free use of the 15-room Gracie Mansion, plus-five servants, a city car and chauffeur. The Senate job would bring him less than half of that: $22,500 a year plus small stipends to help maintain an office staff in Washington and a residence in New York...
...devote himself to the development of thermonuclear weapons. For the last seven years of the Stalin regime, he had, in fact, been kept under house arrest. One of the first acts of the post-Stalin government had been to release the hostage scientist, give him a couple of chauffeur-driven cars and restore him to his former post as Director of the Soviet Institute for Physical Problems, so that he can dabble with his favorite problem: the behavior of matter at extremely low temperatures...
...Sharett left Ben-Gurion's office, the chauffeur of his black Chrysler sprang to attention and began to open the door. Moshe Sharett shook his head violently, clasped the chauffeur's hand in farewell, and without a backward glance walked home to lunch...
...killing of Chauffeur Setu, insisted Beldeanu, was an accident. Convinced that Setu was trying to get a gun out of the legation car, one of the younger members of the band aimed at Setu's feet only to have his Sten gun jump and riddle the chauffeur's body. Beldeanu admitted, however, that he had considered taking hostages and holding the legation until the Bucharest government liberated a number of prominent anti-Communists from Rumanian jails. "Don't you think this is a bit too fantastic?" asked Presiding Judge Paul Schwartz. "No," said Beldeanu firmly...
Advertiser Editor in Chief Grover C. Hall Jr. welcomed Poston to choose his own desk in the city room, opened the paper's files to him, set up appointments, offered him a staff photographer, and assigned City Editor Joe Azbell to act as guide and chauffeur. Poston hit it off so well with the staff that he told them a story on himself. He had instructions, he said, to phone Editor Wechsler every day with assurance that he had come to no harm. Poston added that he had got lost on Montgomery streets one night, and two white children...