Word: acapulco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...areas with superefficient methods that devastate the population of rare game fish. In the once renowned waters off New Zealand's Mayor Island, where 900 big fish-swordfish, striped and black marlin -were boated in 1949, not a single billfish of any size was caught in 1964. Off Acapulco, Mexico, headquarters of one of the world's biggest (300 boats) sport-fishing fleets, commercials have zeroed in on that most spectacular of seagoing acrobats, the Pacific sailfish. Two years ago, in Acapulco's annual tournament, 48 anglers landed 176 sails; last year's catch was barely...
...Jamaica last summer, sport fishermen blasted away at a long liner's glass floats with rifles. In Acapulco, only the timely arrival of a Mexican coast-guard boat averted a shooting match between charter-boat vigilantes and a Japanese long liner armed with a machine gun. And last July, when a flotilla of Norwegian long liners steamed into Maryland's Jack Spot, a pair of charter-boat skippers roared out and carved up the long lines with their boats' propellers...
...were some important differences. Outgoing Mayor Robert Wagner, who had worked hand-in-glove with Quill during three mayoral terms, was weary and obviously bored as his last days as mayor approached. He made only a feint here and there toward seriously talking with Quill, finally left town for Acapulco 20 hours before the strike deadline of 5 a.m. on Jan. 1. Moreover, Quill, a sick man who had had several heart attacks and slept with an oxygen tank by his bedside, was under heavy pressure from his union to win bigger wage hikes than he had been settling...
...Charlotte, give us a smile!" cried a photographer. "It's Anne," she said. Gianni looked down his Roman nose. "That was two weeks ago," he said. Then both headed back upstairs to the 125-guest reception; after that they flew off to honeymoon in a rented house in Acapulco for two weeks. "Well," said Daddy, "it all worked...
...right, but things couldn't have been very gay, with Pat going into the reserves any day now. Lynda Bird Johnson, 21, was doing the giggling for a change as she flew off right after turkey dinner to spend the weekend swimming, fishing and water-skiing in Acapulco, Mexico, with Actor (All the Fine Young Cannibals) George Hamilton, 26. Reporters started talking vaguely about romance...