Word: chauffeur
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...climbed quietly over a high iron-grille fence. Looming above them in the snowy darkness was the big building presided over by Chargé d'Affaires Emeric Stoffel. To their left, in a chalet-type house near the street, was the chancellery, where lived Aurel Setu, nominally the chauffeur, but actually the secret police boss of the Communist legation. The leader of the masked men rang the bell at the chancellery. "Step inside," he said, when Madame Setu opened the door. They trussed Madame Setu in a chair, then began searching the place. In the cellar...
...legation, and the area encircled with barbed wire. A hundred steel-helmeted police armed with rifles and submachine guns covered the house. Finally, at dawn, with Stoffel's permission, the police broke into the legation grounds. Following a trail of bloodstains in the snow, they found Chauffeur Setu lying unconscious under a bush, bleeding from gunshot wounds. They rushed him to a hospital, where he died...
...Rumanian legation in Copenhagen, the Communists had trouble over another chauffeur. Driver Ion Cimpu, 25, asked the Danes for political asylum for himself and his bride of eight months, Maria, 21. But the Rumanians got wind of his plan, refused to part with Maria, instead produced her at a press conference, where she said she had never heard her husband talk of fleeing to the West. "Had I known, I would have killed him because such a thought is treason against our country," said Maria. "Now I only want to go back to Rumania as fast as possible, [because...
Late last year a liveried chauffeur began poking around the French Riviera, seeking a country mansion to suit the tastes of his employer, an anonymous Paris industrialist. Through a Paris real estate office, he finally negotiated the purchase of a stately, green-shuttered pink villa. Price for the estate, which sprawls near the Aga Khan's Cannes hideaway: $90,000. The tipoff that the new owner was no ordinary industrialist came last November, when the locals learned that he had ordered a new lodge built on the grounds especially to house his platoon of bodyguards. Last week the mysterious...
Sabrina. The boss's sons (Humphrey Bogart, William Holden) and the chauffeur's daughter (Audrey Hepburn) are at it again, but thanks to Director Billy Wilder, not all the bloom is off this faded comic ruse (TIME, Sept...