Word: acapulco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...garish Acapulco the lavishly jeweled American widow and her elderly lawyer friend were steered everywhere by a handsome Mexican-American travel agent. Young Luis Fenton was a great find. His office was right in their hotel, Las Hamacas. Wealthy Mrs. Edith Hallock, 63, even wrote home admiringly about him to her sister in New York. With the help of Luis, 33, she and Joseph A. Michel, 70, saw everything-from the thrilling high dives of bronzed young natives off the towering sea cliffs to the intriguing low dives along the waterfront. Luis arranged a midnight yacht trip for the happy...
...Getty Oil, he controls 64½% of Tidewater Oil*($460 million worth), 59% of Skelly Oil (worth $335 million). He also has .417% of the Iranian Oil Consortium (worth about $8,000,000) and Oklahoma's $15 million Spartan Aircraft Co., $10 million worth of real estate from Acapulco to Manhattan's plush Hotel Pierre...
...surf off the Mexican resort of Acapulco swam a typical Hollywood twosome, dashing Cinemactor Michael Wilding and jet-powered Cinemagnate Michael Todd. After splashing about, the two Mikes reportedly had a drink together. Then twice-married Mike Wilding ex ited after freeing his ailing wife, Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 24, who had a relapse after a shopping tour with him, to get a divorce and marry twice-married Mike Todd, twice...
...week it was clear that Rivera's mural was a wash out. Mexico's National Restoration Institute, after six months of vain attempts to save it, announced that it was abandoning the rapidly deteriorating mural to the ravages of running water and sediment. Rivera, in seclusion in Acapulco, was unavailable for discussion of the decision. But old rival and fellow Communist, David Siqueiros, was glad to oblige: "When Diego started painting this mural, I told him that polystyrene, like any other paint, was not going to resist water for even two years. I advised Rivera to use mosaic...
...says he has already cleared his plans with the U.S. Justice Department, whose trustbusters (TIME, Feb. 20) forced the chain to sell Washington's Mayflower, St. Louis' Jefferson and New York's Roosevelt hotels. Within a year, Hilton will open other new hotels in Mexico City, Acapulco, Havana, Cairo and Montreal...