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...that the three judges had heard, a departmental panel considered some facts about Martinis' driving record. He was arrested for speeding three times in 16 days in 1959, lost his driver's license, got it back two months later by lying about past convictions. After the parkway smashup, police found ten unanswered traffic tickets in the glove compartment of his car (five for driving with a defective muffler, five for parking violations). In late July, the department announced its findings: 1) Martinis was speeding on the evening of the accident; 2) he was zigzagging through traffic...
...California, as in the 49 smaller states, a driver who crashes into another car from behind bears the burden of proving he was not driving too fast or too close-making 199 drivers potentially at fault for the Santa Ana smashup. And whatever happened to that front-running woman who had started it all? She apparently repaired her flat tire and left during the confusion...
...glass splintered and lead thudded into the chassis, Son-in-law de Boissieu shouted to the driver, "Above all, don't stop!" Then De Boissieu reached back and pulled De Gaulle and his wife to the floor. The driver stepped on the gas and narrowly averted a smashup when another burst of gunfire blew out two of the special "puncture-proof" tires...
After the Smashup. In pursuing two admirable ends that businessmen might easily approve-price stability and increased investment-the Administration has thus managed to bring hostility and suspicion upon itself and to impair the confidence of the business community. That impairment was symbolized when the stock market plunge more than wiped out the Dow-Jones average's entire gain from the late "Kennedy bull market...
...economy-far more valuable than the best-intentioned tinkerings. Failure to provide it could sabotage his economic programs, torpedo his campaign promise to "get this country moving again." And as a man who likes to read history books, Kennedy can hardly help recalling 1929 and its aftermath. The smashup of 1929, leading to the Great Depression, crushingly ended the rarely interrupted Republican dominance that began with Abraham Lincoln. For a proud Democratic President, it would be hard to imagine a fate more hideous than to become the Democratic version of Herbert Hoover...