Word: chauffeur
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...Security" [Jan. 22], you suggest phasing out benefits paid to spouses who "do not work" because such payments are expensive and "discriminate against working women." I'd like to know what a wife who works for years at hard labor-cooking, cleaning, doing the laundry, being nurse, adviser, chauffeur and mainstay of a home-does if she does not work. I would say that this kind of working woman deserves all she gets from her husband's share of Social Security...
...agent of his undoing is Jean-Paul, a roguish Parisian chauffeur (Jack Lenoir) who sees that the screenwriter is too cubical to make a move toward the very available Hunnicutt character and who does the necessary maneuvering himself. He is a scampish servant of classical comedy, who cleverly manages his master's life without neglecting his own comfort. At the film's end, when the screenwriter threatens to violate the rules of worldliness by falling in love, Jean-Paul saves him from the folly of earnestness by bedding the lady himself. The writer does not take this kindness...
...film's precarious appeal depends on the attractiveness of Rogers and Hunnicutt, who are pleasant to watch even when they are delivering empty speeches, the dependable duty of Paris and the presence of Jack Lenoir, who makes a great chauffeur and rogue...
DIED. Sam Houston Johnson, 64, the late President Johnson's only brother; of cancer; in Austin, Texas. The younger Johnson worked for L.B.J. for three decades, acting, he once explained, as "baby sitter, chauffeur, political troubleshooter, administrative aide and general adviser." In 1970 he published My Brother Lyndon, in which he wrote that anyone who works for L.B.J. for more than 30 days "ought to receive a Purple Heart...
...passengers, Dr. Halla Brown, 66. After 19 months of hospitalization and round-the-clock nursing care at home, her medical bills have exceeded $300,000, but she could never collect a dime from the attaché. Two years later, a car driven by a Senegalese embassy chauffeur struck and killed a 19-year-old road worker in suburban Virginia. The embassy carried no liability insurance on the car, and the victim's family could not then bring suit for damages against the embassy's chauffeur...