Word: chauffeured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...window to see him taking his bath. Males bother him too. They say he strides like "a supercharged sports car parading." He once found an eager young fellow lying flat on his back under one of his automobiles, refusing to budge unless Yujiro would hire him as a chauffeur...
...black and grey Bentley snaked south out of Los Angeles along the Santa Ana Freeway, shook free of the traffic, and began to climb fast on a mountain road through the open country. At the wheel was a shapely brunette beauty?secretary, assistant and part-time chauffeur to the man in the back seat listening to Mantovani on a built-in stereophonic tape recorder. The car stopped on the mountaintop, where a friend was waiting; the man got out, a trim 6 feet with heavy-lidded blue eyes and an actor's dash. The wind riffled his wavy, iron-grey...
Already a power in 1957, Vito Genovese coveted the influence of New York Gambling Czar Frank Costello (now fighting deportation). But Costello would not budge. Infuriated, Genovese gave his chauffeur a contract on Costello. The chauffeur took a clumsy shot at Costello in the lobby of his Manhattan apartment, succeeded only in creasing his skull...
Today the most formidable and in some ways the bravest woman in South Viet Nam wears tapered satin trousers and a torso-hugging ao-dai, split from ankle to waist, and rides to meet her foes in a chauffeur-driven black Mer cedes. Instead of swords, her weapons are bottomless energy, a devastating charm, a tough, relentless mind, an acid tongue, a militant Roman Catholi cism ? and, most important, the power of the family into which she married. She is Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, wife of President Ngo Dinh Diem's younger brother and closest brain-truster...
Yachts & Tennis. Despite their great wealth, both brothers live unostentatiously. Jacob drives himself to his office in a middle-class Opel; Marcus has a Buick and usually does the driving-but he has a chauffeur to answer the car's radiotelephone. An expert yachtsman, Jacob skippered his 59.4-ft. yawl Refanut to victory in last year's 350-mile Baltic race. Marcus was Sweden's tennis champion in the 1920s and is still an expert player; he also excels at pingpong...