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...afternoon Vargas shouted "cherry pie" in Burbank, the customers arrived to find a calliope thumping out Thunder and Blazes, a searchlight probing the sky. and an atmosphere redolent of popcorn, frankfurters and musky jungle game. The caged tigers roared, the chimps snarled and the wild, 700-lb. Syrian bears snuffled and muttered about the heat...
Suddenly the music stops. It is 2 a.m., and out of nowhere materialized uniformed policemen, plaid-jacketed plainclothesmen, and a searchlight the size of a cannon. The disc-jockey abandons his notorious sound system to steer the bright beam over the crowd. The silver-studded dancers break apart like mercury and slither sullenly towards the exit. There is a twenty minute wait for coats;the boy with the orange cape has donned less auspicious clothing and bustles about the cloakroom, calling out numbers, grabbing tickets, rolling his eyes...
Newsmen clustered outside the gates of San Clemente were able to pick up only a few crumbs of information. For a while, television crews tuned in on walkie-talkie conversations between Secret Service men patrolling the grounds, including regular reports on the whereabouts of "Searchlight," as Nixon is code-named. Then the Secret Service got wise and all that the TV crews could hear was an electronic hissing. But newsmen did learn that Nixon was still driving a golf cart to his office a short distance from the house. He was seen in the swimming pool and walking about...
...Bullet"; Postmaster General Winton Blount was "The Postman"; and Martha Mitchell was known as "The Account," an advertising term for a client. Nixon himself was above nicknames; in memos and meetings he was referred to as "RN," or "the President," or occasionally by his military code name, "Searchlight...
...looking for a plane with a searchlight," he observed, "does not explore the vastness of the sky in the same way as the aviator...