Word: confirms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Barely more than a minute after the orbiting laboratory was launched two weeks ago, ground controllers knew that Skylab was in trouble. Telemetered signals indicated that the meteoroid-and-heat-shield protecting the workshop and living quarters of the craft had been ripped away. The telemetry also seemed to confirm that one of the workshop's twin electricity-producing solar panels had sheared off, and the other had been jammed by debris from the shield...
...THEN AGAIN, perhaps not. For Pynchon is fondest, above all, of ambiguity. And just as more and more evidence grows to confirm the conspiracy theory, so too grows the likelihood that it is all just a paranoid's hallucination...
...find what, if anything, Vera, Valletta, Vheissu and Vogelsang have in common. And Oedipa Maas, in The Crying of Lot 49, drives up and down the Californian coast exploring the remains of an underground postal system that has survived silently for centuries. But Stencil, Maas and Slothrop can never confirm their conspiracies, and what is more, they cannot tell which is worse--a conspiracy or the possibility that there is no force at all behind the pattern, that it is an accident, a random ordering...
...Watergate. (Gemstone was the code word for these summaries.) Odle said that he did not know if this was a Gemstone file, but admitted that it probably contained "things which have no place in a political campaign." If it was a Watergate wiretap record, of course, that would further confirm that Jeb Magruder had had advance knowledge of the illegal operation. He has admitted lying to the grand jury in denying that he knew in advance about the Watergate bugging and helped to plan it, but he has also claimed that Mitchell asked him to perjure himself in the coverup...
...becomes very friendly with a pair of Tursiops truncatus, the bottle-nosed mammals that may be the closest animal to man in intelligence. The scientist manages to get Bi and Fa, the cetaceans in his charge, to talk English, but what they tell him, alas, would be enough to confirm Scott's worst fears about...