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...plastic bag containing the rocks themselves. The scientific observers said that the 15 or so rocks -the largest was 7 in. long, 5 in. wide and 1½ in. thick-seemed to be covered by a fine, graphite-like powder. Their color was gray, tinged with a touch of cocoa. "This is the beginning of the study of lunar rocks on earth," said Robin Brett, one of the geologists. "To all scientists this is a very, very exciting time...
...joyful. They were uninhibited. They were grandly, gloriously drunk. They were puffing cigars, hugging girls, waving miniature American flags, and pushing each other -fully clothed-into pools. The kissing never stopped. The noise level was astronomical. And so it should have been: the NASA communities of Houston, Huntsville and Cocoa Beach had sent three men to the moon and back. The revelry at splashdown time was fittingly feverish...
...fetid marshland that was bypassed even during the land boom of the 1920s. In the 1950s, recalls Space Reporter Al Volker of the Miami News, the space program was so hushed up that the only way to find out that a shot had taken place was to have a Cocoa Beach bartender telephone the news. But in the 1960s the time had come for Verne's idea. With it came a population of 250,000, cinder-block subdivisions, all the effluvia of a boom town and, last week, a million guests in a carnival atmosphere...
...Cocoa Beach pays unending tribute to the space age that made it prosper. Motels bear names like Sea Missile, Satellite and Polaris. There is a Celestial Trailer Court and an Astro-Dine Outer Space Eat-In. George's Steak House has rest rooms marked "Astronauts" and "Astronets." The menu suggests: "Lift off with a three-stage martini. Order a steak that soars to an apogee of taste and splash down with coffee...
Saturn Engineer John J. Cully, 51, insists: "We work around here. That's all we have time for." Well, not quite. Infidelity is so common that Father Vincent Smith, pastor of the Church of Our Saviour in Cocoa Beach, wryly says that it has become a community joke. An investigator for the American Social Health Association, sent down to measure Cape Kennedy's incidence of prostitution, quickly abandoned his search. Professionals were unnecessary, explained a succession of bartenders and bellhops, because of the numerous eager amateurs, among them single girls and divorcees drawn to the secretarial ranks...