Word: acapulco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guitarist along. Instead, Lara sent a baby grand with the note: "To the incomparable María Félix from her admirer, Agustin Lara." They were married soon after. Every Mexican knows how Lara's famous María Bonita was composed during an enraptured trip to Acapulco with María. But neither such tributes nor three mink coats kept her from divorcing him in 1947 for incompatibility...
Last year the class of '50 "swam to Bermuda" to take top honors in the intramurals. "Acapulco or Bust" was the objective...
Just outside Acapulco, on the road to Mexico City, is a little garden restaurant called El Parque Cachú. Its proprietor, a grey little man known to his neighbors as el gringo, hid his Nordic blue eyes behind dark glasses as he served beer and tacos in the shade of his cashew trees...
...Croves in San Antonio, Tex., and at Croves's urgent request lent him $100. The loan was repaid by check. Spota never learned who had signed the check. But he discovered that Croves had been traveling on a U.S. passport, and that the check had been sent from Acapulco...
Spota hurried there, and by some sharp questioning compiled a list of some 50 Americans who might have been drawing checks on Acapulco banks. One of them was Berick Torsvan, the proprietor of El Parque Cach...