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...rocket fever here," said the manager of the Starlite Motel in Cocoa Beach, Fla. one day last week. "Everything centers on the Cape. We look at it and live with it every day." The Cape is Cape Canaveral, home of the Air Force missile test center, and the everyday facts of life of nearby Cocoa, Cocoa Beach, Melbourne, Rockledge and Titusville-on Florida's east coast-probably have no parallel anywhere else in the world...
Smiles in the Motels. The big night shoots are usually the occasion for the Cape's wives to get together while their husbands work. If there is sufficient warning, they gather at patio parties to watch the gushing clouds of steam tinged with pink, the towers ablaze with brilliant greenish-white light, the plumes of clean-burning jet flame. And in the Starlite Motel, which rents 70 of its 87 units to missilemen from Convair, North American Aviation, Bell Telephone Laboratories, A.C. Spark Plug, the practiced observer at after-the-shoot cocktail parties can tell from the demeanor...
...General Body Co. and White Motor Co. The high-bodied tractor unit perches the driver 8 ft. above the level of the road, which gives him better daytime visibility and avoids the nighttime problem of oncoming headlight glare. Back half of the unit is the equivalent of a rolling motel; instead of a cramped bunk behind the driver's head, the tractor has a small room with two bunks and a lavatory for the crew. Cost of the tractor...
...serve the new salts and their sagebrush cousins, marinas have blossomed into a big business. Like the motel boom, the number of U.S. marinas has grown from a mere handful before World War II to more than 10,000 anchorages of all kinds doing a $500 million annual business. Yet they cannot begin to meet the yachtsmen's demand. Estimates are that the U.S. already needs 10,000 more marinas with room for 2,000,000 boats, and is falling farther behind every year. In the New York area alone, 300,000 boat-owning yachtsmen scramble for space...
Concerning your April 1 article on highway signs: 9,408 Maryland motorists may be against billboards qua billboards, but they are glad to see an "eat" sign when hungry, and a "motel" sign when tired. Most studies show distractions keep motorists alert on long drives, and parkways without signs are the deadliest...