Word: chauffeured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Powel Crosley, Jr., 74, owner of baseball's Cincinnati Reds, manufacturer of low-cost radios and refrigerators and of the midget Crosley auto, a 30-h.p., $800 precursor of the compacts; of a heart attack; in Cincinnati. A onetime chauffeur and telephone repairman who developed the $22 million Crosley Corp., he moved from venture to venture, never earning more than $20 a week until he hit 30. "If I've batted .300, that's lucky," said Crosley, who batted considerably less with his ball club, saw it win but two pennants, finish in the second division...
...somewhat adding insult to injury, giving Secretary of Defense McNamara a chauffeur-driven Cadillac after that huge loss of Ford income? The least compensation should be a chauffeur-driven Lincoln...
...nearby Grassy Tor, but Peaceable Lane's eleven families, ranging from doctors and lawyers to a union vice president and a radio commentator, are not notably odd. Matt and his neighbors are a standoffish, power-mower elite who rarely pool anything beyond the cars with which the wives chauffeur the kids to school each day. But one lazy Sunday afternoon, between the Bloody Marys and the charcoal-broiled steaks, sudden fear glues Peaceable Lane together. An odd man wants in; a Negro is dickering for the house right next door to Matt Jones...
...avoid wasting time in the horrendous Lagos traffic-where auto trips are measured in the number of cigarettes consumed rather than in minutes-Sir Abubakar lives in a modern, two-story cement house near his office with his wife and nine children-plus the swarming families of his chauffeur and police orderly. In the Moslem tradition, his wife does not appear in public; for formal dinner parties, Abubakar borrows the Irish wife of a fellow minister to act as hostess. Up for prayers at 6:30, Abubakar breakfasts in time to arrive at his office precisely at 8:15, heads...
...playing his favorite role of Big Brother to Army dissidents, made things worse by warning of plunging morale. At a U.S. military colony near Paris, an Army officer's wife looked up from a children's party and said wistfully: "I just sent my husband's chauffeur to get a case of Coke...