Word: chauffeur
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...British tabloids reported last week that Oliver Hoare, the London art dealer PRINCESS DI supposedly phone-pestered last year, is now obsessively calling her. "Longing to hear you and love you madly," was one of the messages Hoare allegedly left for Di with an answering service. Meantime, Hoare's chauffeur asserted that the couple has trysted in the homes of friends since...
They perfected the Hollywood divorce as hideously indecorous spectacle. There were public shouting matches, nasty accusations leveled and retracted. Yet the couple apparently suffered few lasting emotional wounds: Tom is now engaged to a college student; Roseanne will soon marry her Tom-sized chauffeur-bodyguard...
...have yet to see a Brink's truck following a hearse." Smitten by his swath and style, bankers fairly begged him to borrow their money; Merrill Lynch created three coin-trading funds for him to manage. McNall set up a bogus horse-appraisal firm, listing his chauffeur as owner and appraiser...
...them. When Mandela lived underground as an outlaw in the early 1960s and was dubbed the Black Pimpernel by the South African press for his ability to elude the police, his colleagues marveled at how he blended in with the people. He usually disguised himself as a chauffeur; he would don a long dustcoat, hunch his shoulders and, suddenly, this tall, singularly regal figure was transformed into one of the huddled masses moving along the streets of Johannesburg. Even today, at rallies or meetings, the poorest supporter of the A.N.C. feels he has the right to greet and address...
...fall the Pentagon inspector general found the academies wasting millions of dollars annually employing nearly 400 military personnel whose jobs should have been eliminated or filled by less costly civilians. But West Point's superintendent, Lieut. General Howard Graves, has refused to surrender his $37,000-a-year sergeant-chauffeur, even though he has three other enlisted aides. "This position is essential to the mission of the U.S. Military Academy," Graves told the bemused auditors. His three other personal aides, he added, "cannot be stewards and drivers at the same time...