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[i]"Merely choosing a motel puts the visitor right in the prevailing Cocoa Beach mood. After driving past the Vanguard, the Sea Missile, and the Celestial Trailer Court, I pulled up at the Starlite, which has as its roadside sign a flashing neon rocket. "My towels bore the legend 'Satellite Motel' and when I asked the manager about this, he said, 'That's a sore point. We wanted to call the place the Satellite, but then we heard that some joker had already registered the name, so we settled for the Starlite.' "The restaurant was decorated with a vast- and, I was told, accurate — chart of the heavens, while the bar, a murky L-shaped room, had murals showing the moon as seen through a telescope and the earth as seen from the moon. "The bartender greeted me genially when I came in, and, no doubt spotting me as a tenderfoot asked whether I would like a 'Countdown' - ten parts vodka to one part vermouth - or a 'Marstini'; I said a plain bourbon and water would do, and he seemed a little disappointed."[/i]
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