Word: acapulco
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...Operator, The Deadly Companions), a brawny onetime shipyard worker who played movieland mobsters and occasional heroes, except for a surprising leap into Italian avant-garde as the lovesick mechanic in Antonioni's IlGrido; of pulmonary edema, aboard his 33-ft. ketch Rogue, while sailing the Pacific from Acapulco to Costa Rica with a crew of three Mexican women, who drifted helplessly for ten days after his death until they were rescued by a U.S. fishing boat off the coast of Guatemala...
...Birthday weekend that even Bermuda, where the season usually begins at Easter, was overbooked, despite chilly temperatures. The crowds overflowed from the more popular islands like Jamaica and Barbados outward to lesser-knowns: Martinique, St. Maarten, St. Lucia and Grenada are all filled to the gunwales. In Mexico, Acapulco is jammed and, in Puerto Vallarta, beach space is hard to come by. The big boom, which began before Christmas, reached its peak in mid-January and has stayed there ever since...
Love Has Many Faces. "This town is a can of worms," says Cliff Robertson, describing the moral pollution of Acapulco. Love makes Mexico's coastal resort look like a terrible place to visit and no fun to live in either, for the beaches are littered with disreputable Americans. One of them is dead-a suicidal beach boy named Billy, who has obviously taken the easy way out of a flabby, overdressed melodrama...
Meanwhile, several unsavory friends stand ready to expand a mere triangle into a many-splendored thing. Lana's warmest admirer is Hugh O'Brian, a Romeo-for-hire to rich female tourists. Two of them (Ruth Roman and Virginia Grey) have come to Acapulco to get some son, and Ruth thinks that O'Brian is just...
...kids, this year's midsummer madness does absolutely nothing to weed the men from the boys. Policemen, politicians, churchmen all had their views, from the Tel Aviv cop who swore that "no nice Israeli girl would wear them" (25 suits had just hopped off local store racks) to Acapulco's mayor, who announced that if they turned up on his beach, "I would go to see them, naturally." The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Michael Ramsey, 59, when asked...