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...common with hard-core mobsters like Gotti, was unworthy of the high position; the prudent Castellano was wary of the hot-tempered young capo. When Dellacroce died last year, Gotti was in line to become the new underboss. Castellano, however, had other ideas and seemed ready to elevate his chauffeur-bodyguard, Thomas Bilotti. Last year Castellano and Bilotti were mowed down in a brazen late-afternoon slaying outside Sparks Steak House in midtown Manhattan. The FBI believes Gotti ordered the hit, but so far no one has been arrested. Afterward, Gotti consolidated power as the head of the family...
...fame of its subject and, to a lesser extent, its writer practically guarantees best-sellerdom, but Eisenhower: At War 1943-1945 hardly qualifies as a popularized book. Those seeking scandals or secrets will be disappointed. Author Eisenhower notes, for example, rumors of a wartime affair between Ike and his chauffeur-secretary Kay Summersby. The matter is then quickly dropped: "Eisenhower was under tremendous pressures and in need of company. Beyond this, the truth was known only by them, and both are gone." Instead of titillating, David is interested in seeing the war through his grandfather's eyes. The question...
...Frankenstein, come love, lust, violence and art. Simone (Cathy Tyson), a chic London call girl, understands this impulse in men and knows how to indulge it to her profit. Well, it's a living. But to George (Bob Hoskins), assigned by a mob boss to be Simone's chauffeur, it seems a living hell. How can she endure these rough hands and tawdry nightdreams? How can she not respond to his courtly Cockney love? Simone does respond, in the only way she knows, by using him. She sends her squire out to play knight, searching the Soho underworld...
...elementary schools. Some had applied to four or five. Gail Zimmerman, 41, who had visited twelve schools before deciding where to apply for her four-year-old daughter, advised, "Hang out at the school around dismissal time, so you can see who picks the kids up. Is it a chauffeur? A baby sitter? The child's mother?" And she suggested keeping a notebook in which to log such personal impressions. A few parents elsewhere in New York are hiring educational consultants to prepare youngsters for a 40-minute test, administered by the Educational Records Bureau, which many schools require...
After graduation he traveled to the U.S., where he spent a summer at Harvard University studying international affairs, working as a waiter at the local Howard Johnson's and romantically pursuing a South Carolina debutante--without success. When the term ended, Chirac took a job as a chauffeur for the widow of a Texas oilman. Returning home in 1953, he married Bernadette de Courcel, a classmate at the institute who was from a wealthy and aristocratic family. They had two daughters, Laurence, now 28, and Claude, 23. After fighting in the French Foreign Legion during the Algerian war of independence...