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...vaguely at some ghastly automotive da fé in their past. Others have good reason to leave the driving to someone else. Says English Actor Michael Caine: "When I was young I couldn't afford a car, and now that I'm rich I can afford a chauffeur." Richard Harris, the Irish actor, has not driven since the merry day he had a donnybrook with a bus and decided he was a menace at the wheel; he also can afford a chauffeur. Author T.H. White (The Sword in the Stone) used to barrel a Bentley around his minuscule...
...useful, the reflexes of antiterrorism must be instantaneous. And though they have saved several of Scott's graduates from trouble, on occasion they can be dangerous. A corporate chauffeur confronted by a man pushing a rack of clothes across a downtown street in Pittsburgh was suspicious enough to gun the car onto the sidewalk, smashing several parking meters in an escape attempt. It was not an attack. Luckily no pedestrians were injured. Though trying to drive around a roadblock is the worst thing to do - it exposes you to broadside fire - the chauffeur's startled boss gave...
...game was big and artillery appropriately heavy. Shortly before 10 one morning last week, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, 54, the exiled former dictator of Nicaragua, climbed into his white Mercedes-Benz 280 limousine along with his chauffeur and a business associate, and drove away from his luxurious villa in a suburb of the Paraguayan capital of Asunción. The limousine, followed by a backup car carrying three bodyguards, had traveled a mere five blocks when a Chevrolet pickup truck pulled up alongside, and unleashed a hail of automatic rifle fire. As the bodyguards returned the fire, a bazooka rocket, launched...
...electronic tracking systems that help trace a kidnap victim. A particularly nervous tycoon could buy from CCS Communication Control Inc. for $200,000 the security-studded 1979 silver-gray Cadillac that was once ordered by the Shah of Iran but never delivered. For $1,500 more, his chauffeur could take a four-day evasive-driving course in Summit Point, W. Va., that teaches high-speed handling and bootleg turns to escape terrorist blockades. The head of an East Coast steel firm spent $150,000 this spring to protect his house with electronic sensors on doors and windows, roof and carpet...
Politburo members and other top political officials, for example, live in exclusive apartment enclaves and speed to work in chauffeur-driven ZIL limousines. Although their salaries are relatively modest, they have little need for money: not only are they housed by the government, they also receive a special Kremlin ration that allows them to feed their families well for a nominal monthly fee of 50 to 70 rubles. (An average family of four in Moscow might spend 180 to 200 rubles a month on food...