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...noon next day the President sat back in the deep cushions of his big closed car, adjusted his big dark Navy cape. The gravel spattered from the driveway, the car moved off slowly around the south lawn, and up the long clear stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue toward the looming dome of the Capitol...
...seemed less awed by the transformation than Carter himself. With Rosalynn and nine-year-old Amy in tow, he strolled like a tourist up the driveway to his new home. "Where do I live?" he asked White House Chief Usher Rex Scouten. Scouten promptly led the family upstairs to the quarters that had only that morning been vacated by the Fords...
...Ford Escorts moved unobtrusively down a quiet, tree-lined avenue in Restelo, an affluent suburb of Lisbon. One stopped outside the driveway of the Turkish embassy; the other turned sharply, burst through the compound's 3-ft.-high iron gates and jolted to a halt. An armed man advanced on the embassy, wounded a police sentry in a burst of fire and was in turn shot dead by a Turkish security guard. As Portuguese policemen hurried toward the scene, four other intruders raced into the adjacent ambassador's residence and seized its only occupants, Cahide...
...minutes until air time, and still no sign of the star. Standing on the portico of Tokyo's TV Asahi station, her manager, her producer and her director nervously scan the driveway. Five minutes...
...white 1983 Mercedes 230E embellishes the stucco house is one of the most imposing in the driveway. The burgeoning Tokyo suburb of Ichikawa. More than 100,000 books line the walls of the library. Two male secretaries are at work in the study. Yet Hisashi Inoue is not happy. "It's terrible to be a bestselling writer," he complains. One of the terrors is familiar to any Westerner: the Japanese version of the IRS. The novelist has sold 12 million copies of his 56 books, making him one of the most successful writers in the world today. Nonetheless...