Word: accidentally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A short time later, police arrested Martinis in a friend's apartment not far from the scene of the accident. Witnesses had told police that Martinis' zigzagging car clipped the rear of the car that went caroming through the parkway hedge.
Once subdued, Martinis was charged with drunken driving, reckless driving and leaving the scene of the accident. He faced a maximum penalty of $1,500 fine and three years in jail.
While the grand jury was considering the case, the state's Department of Motor Vehicles held a hearing of its own. Along with the testimony that the three judges had heard, a departmental panel considered some facts about Martinis' driving record. He was arrested for speeding three times...
More and more of the greater Los Angeles area is going under water every year. There are some 80,000 private pools, and new pool permits are issued at a rate of 12,000 a year. Two out of every nine pool owners in the U.S. live there and cavort...
* Including a share in the 44 Vicarat Hope Diamond, the historic "bad-luck" stone once worn by Marie Antoinette and supposedly possessed of an Oriental curse. Mrs. McLean's husband bought it in Turkey in 1911; he subsequently went insane, his eldest son was killed in a car accident...