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...hotel found that request too taxing. Chicago's Lurye says he has bailed conventioneers out of jail, taken them to hospitals and, once, had to coax a convention employee to share her oral contraceptives. That latter mission came after Lurye spotted a man hanging over the balcony of an Acapulco hotel screaming, "Help! My wife ran out of birth control pills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Convening of America | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...Farrah Fawcett-Majors is willing to take the plunge. She always was the athletic Angel, and now Majors is getting to do all her own stunt work for her latest film, Sunburn. As Model Ellie Morgan, hired to help Private Eye Charles Grodin investigate an insurance swindle in Acapulco, she steers a car at breakneck speed through a bullring and fights off a gang of thugs under water. During the filming, stunt men got their signals crossed and pulled Majors beneath the surface before she had secured her breathing tube, nearly drowning her. But with it all, she is delighted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 18, 1978 | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...lowest fare and plots the routes over which it is applied. One Eastern reservations clerk spent three hours on the phone with a couple, reckoning a 50-stop trip under the line's $302 to $323 fare that entitles a traveler to unlimited mileage?from Atlanta to Acapulco, from Seattle to San Juan?for 21 days. A new status symbol among businessmen is to know the unlisted reservations numbers that airlines have for VIP travelers. Laments Delta Air Lines President David Garrett: "We've got 18 different fares just between Atlanta and London, and they have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flying the Crowded Skies | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

...Mall to the Music Hall, frontal-assaulted the Top Forty, and paid for a new sloop, Euphoria II. There aren't but a half-dozen memorable lines on the new album, and even fewer musical quirks, like the cello (the cello??) that follows Buffett down one of his trademark Acapulco cliff-diving voice drops at the end of a line and flattens out the splash. This is shrimpboat country rock all right, but it's all cluttered up with the latest radar and range-finders (like manager Irving Azoff, who flies the Eagles among others), automatic net-spreaders (the Margaritaville...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: And Texas Hidden Deep In My Heart | 4/8/1978 | See Source »

...travel. For no more than $323, a passenger can buy an "Unlimited Mileage" ticket that allows him up to 21 days of travel to any or all of 101 cities-excluding Canada-on Eastern's route map, which stretches from coast to coast and to Mexico City, Acapulco and twelve Caribbean islands. The only catch, aside from the fact that the minimum three-stopover itinerary must be settled and paid for in advance; the fare is available only to passengers traveling in pairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Sky Wars over North America | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

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