Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Characters with typical Pynchon names cope in various ways. Pirate Prentice, a source of sentiment and life's small pleasures, whips up a batch of fried bananas. Elsewhere, Statistician Roger Mexico plots the distribution pattern of the rocket strikes according to a probability equation. But his data is no help. The odds of getting killed remain constant. "Each hit is independent of all others," Roger explains. "Bombs are not dogs. No link. No memory. No conditioning...
...bench outnumbered the crowd at the Radcliffe Gym, but the 15-9, 12-15, 15-13 match was marked by rocket spiking, flashy saves, and colorful uniforms. Blue jeans and earrings were on display, and one B.U. player sported a bright red shirt marked with a decorative cannabis leaf...
...flight line, ground personnel winched 500-lb, bombs onto the wing racks of Macho's 30-odd Skyhawks, guarded from rocket attacks by steel revetments that were decorated with gaudy graffiti. GOODBYE VIET ALLIES...
...economy was going like gangbusters on double time, Government-imposed controls on prices and wages had recently been loosened, and the world's monetary powers were meeting to discuss long-overdue currency reforms. So last week was the perfect time for a good, old-fashioned Wall Street rocket launching, right? Wrong...
James left Australia in the spring of 1969 to visit London, traveling through China and the Soviet Union along the way. Upon his arrival, he sold the London Sunday Times a remarkable story; it told of his visit to secret Chinese nuclear and rocket installations in the remote western province of Sinkiang. With unheard-of garrulity, Chinese officials ostensibly had told James that they were concentrating on the production of hydrogen bombs and the development of a missile with a range of 6,000 miles-assuring their second-strike capacity against...