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...bomber had already started to dive toward the Mojave Desert when a chase plane radioed to Co-Pilot Doug Benefield, "How are you doing, Doug?" Replied Benefield: "We may have to punch it. We have to punch." Those were his last known words. Command Pilot Richard Reynolds pulled the eject handle, flinging the cock pit and its three-man crew free of the plane just 9 sec. before it slammed into the ground. Two of the men escaped with injuries...
...government claims that Moon failed to pay taxes on $162,000 interest on a $1.8 million Chase Manhattan Bank account. Moon says that he was holding the money in trust for his church, an established legal practice known as corporation sole, and that the money should therefore have been tax-exempt. (Curiously, Moon did pay personal taxes on the bulk of the account...
...years ago, the government proved to a jury's satisfaction that Moon used the Chase Manhattan account to purchase stock in iron and paint companies and a Washington bank, to pay for clothing and private schools for his children, and to buy such sundries as gold watches for himself and his friends. IRS agents researched the case for five years and the government spent two years prosecuting it. The estimates for the cost of prosecution and defense range up to $6 million...
...instead of a chess match the makers of the film opt for a dressed up car chase and fail to realize the excitement that the raw material promises...
...this illusory compact is shattered in 1781, when Mozart arrives at the court of Emperor Joseph II. The older musician is at once disgusted by Mozart, who seems a spoiled self-important adolescent. When Mozart chase a giggly female companion into a room where Salieri is sneaking pastries, Italian composer inadvertently overhears the two exchange infantile jokes. "Say 'say I'm sick backwards," the musical prodigy insists, his words punctuated by an obnoxious high pitched giggle...