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While preparing to putt during a friendly Acapulco match, Golf Champion Lee Trevino was startled to see an iguana slink onto the green and glare balefully at his golf ball. Trevino gingerly sank a 12-ft. shot from under the lizard's chin, then, since the iguana offered no objections, repeated the performance for local cameramen. The beast departed hurriedly only after Trevino picked it up and dunked it in the pool. When the subject of being Mexican was brought up, Trevino, a Dallas-born Chicano, allowed that he is "making too much money to be Mexican." The poor...
...there have been stepped up military operations across the country. Along the well-travelled Cuernavaca-Mexico City Highway soldiers march with fixed bayonets. Armed searches at the toll stations have been frequent. Full dress military patrols roam the countryside in the state of Guerrero, famous as the home of Acapulco, while it remains under semi-martial...
...Paradise, Patrick Dennis' latest novel. The charisma, cheerful talent and canny sense of the absurd that brought fame to Mame are conspicuously absent this time. Too bad, because Dennis has invented a situation with comic possibilities. At the start of the tourist season an earthquake transforms an Acapulco resort into an island rocked by storms. Both amenities and necessities swiftly disappear. As Dennis' caricatures try to cope with life in the raw, long-distance television cameras grind away from the shore, picking up every grisly move. The show, a modified Candid Camera, grows more and more popular...
This year the conference was held in the relaxed atmosphere of a resort near Acapulco, Mexico. Among the Government officials attending were George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Counsellor to the President; Charles Walker, Under Secretary of the Treasury; Preston Martin, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board; and Allan Oakley Hunter, president of the Federal National Mortgage Association. They were joined by 80 leaders from every sector of the housing industry. That is quite an increase since the first meeting at Pebble Beach, Calif., when the presidents of the National Association of Home...
Some flights between New York and Europe take 14 bumpy hours, and all stop at Reykjavik, nobody's Acapulco. Aloft, a party air pervades the aircraft as young people wander the aisle in search of companionship or add to the graffiti on the backs of seats. Lunch and dinner consist of simple food like chicken and peas...