Word: acapulco
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Mexico's imported gringos include all kinds. At the peak there are the sleek fat cats of Cuernavaca and Acapulco, reading their airmailed New York Times in their white-walled gardens and practicing kitchen-Spanish on the servants, who have servants of their own. At the other end of the scale, and potentially more important to both Mexico and the U.S., are Americans with as little as $150 a month, who have worked out a comfortable design for living in such modest places as Chapala and Ajijic...
...having Willie on its back. Bettors lucky enough to back him on one of his hot days (eight times in his career he has won six races on a single card) have been known to buy Rolls-Royces and retire in splendor to places like Palm Beach and Acapulco. And whenever a big race rolls around, the notation "Jockey: W. Shoemaker" opposite a horse's name is often enough to send it off the favorite. That is just what happened this month when Willie announced that he would ride the California champion, Hill Rise, in next week...
Lost Hideaways. Given the time and the girl-how about the place? For West Coasters, Mexico is the most popular foreign country, but obviously Acapulco is not the best spot to avoid running into Uncle Max. This has given a certain vogue to a number of fishing villages in Baja California. But for the cognoscenti, this year's top country is Guatemala, where the most In resort is Chichicastenango ("Chichi" to the real swingers...
...bought a $30,000 house in a cottage colony eight miles outside town. Liz and Dick are house hunting too. Playwright Tennessee Williams, whose Iguana is set in an unspoiled Mexican resort in 1940, took one look at Vallarta and exclaimed: "This is precisely what I meant. This is Acapulco 20 years...
...early discoverers shudder to think that Vallarta may go the way of Acapulco-even though they will be able to sell out handsomely as they move on to the next "undiscovered" spot. This appears to be a place called Yelapa, 20 miles down the coast, where half a dozen American settlers have already set up housekeeping. "When we first came," recalls a retired American woman in Puerto Vallarta, "you could hear parrots from the mountains at night. You can't hear them any more." But to the Mexicans, the clang of cash registers makes...