Word: chauffeur
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...Walter Cronkite?" gasped a journalist from the Soviet magazine Literary Gazette. "I want to interview him." The glossiest limousine, a black Mercedes 600, was ogled by spectators when it rolled by with a sign in the window that said CBS NEWS COVERS THE PRESIDENT'S VISIT. Every chauffeur in Vienna was hired by the invading electronic hordes, and Barbara Walters arrived only after an advance team had plotted her moves as they do for a President. She came with a journalistic valet who carried notes, coats, pencils...
...more to mastering all the minutiae herself and plunging into an array of meetings to keep on top of the corporate scene. Instead of long memos, she scratches out terse notes to staffers on file cards, many of them dashed off during her commute from Greenwich, Conn., in her chauffeur-driven $46,000 gray Cadillac...
...Dubs reached a midtown intersection last Wednesday morning, on schedule at 8:45 a.m., four armed attackers, one of whom was dressed as a Kabul traffic policeman, stopped his chauffeur-driven Oldsmobile at gunpoint and jumped into the car. The abductors, believed to be right-wing Shi'ite Muslims opposed to Afghanistan's pro-Soviet regime, ordered their captive to drive to the Kabul Hotel, located near the Defense Ministry...
...maybe use him for target practice." Amir-Sadeghi was characterized by the Times as "the first person to give foreign correspondents accurate information about the Shah's plan to leave Iran"-and less generously by the Washington Post as "the son of the Shah's former chauffeur and a young man much given to verbal exaggeration...