Word: acapulco
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...Acapulco is beginning to look like Miami Beach; Cuernavaca is more for the old folks. Where is the In place for tourists in Mexico this year? It is Puerto Vallarta, a remote little fishing village midway up the Pacific Coast, where everyone is going to warm his bones and taste what the travel folders call the "real, unspoiled Mexico...
...bring in that trophy for the game room. The bungalow that rented for $30 a month brings as much as $250, and a one-bedroom house on the fashionable hillside called "Gringo Gulch" goes for at least $10,000-still a bargain by Acapulco standards. There is neon, a supermarket, a nightclub. The new Posada
...they are generally younger than the winter crowd and they catch on fast. If the available entertainment doesn't suit, they seek out their own fun. In Mexico, where summer travel is up 22% this year, tourists often forgo the resort delights of Acapulco (8,674 rooms) for a tour of the country's archaeological treasures or two weeks exploring a remote fishing village such as Puerto Vallarta (less than 1,000 rooms) on the West Coast. So popular is Puerto Vallarta now that the hotels are 90% full throughout the summer, and one part of town...
...remote corners and pockets of the hemisphere, there are places where the Communists are either in effective control of a region or very near to it. One such corner is the ruggedly scenic Mexican state of Michoacán, on the Pacific coast north of the resort town of Acapulco (see map). Admits one of the state's own officials: "What we have here is a well-cultivated Communist zone...
...brothers hung on grimly, traveled to Acapulco, Monterrey, Guadalajara and beyond to get their merchandise. They sponsored a television show called The 64,000-Peso Question, used some air time to whip up public opinion. The turning point came when the Arangos opened two new stores. ''They knew then," says Jeronimo, president of the chain, "that we weren't any fly-by-night operation. We were in business forever...