Word: acapulco
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...what reads almost like a Behavior Manual for Modern Poets, Clem drifts from Acapulco to Paris to New York-wenching, wiving, divorcing, insulting his friends and occasionally scribbling. During his final, alcoholic collapse he sits in a Greenwich Village bar playing the literary clown to agents and publishers, sexual adventuresses and adoring disciples. He is found one morning, overcome by escaping gas, in the apartment of an admirer who lies sprawled nude on the sofa. The girl dies immediately, but Clem lingers several days-time enough for the "trooping animals," with "a brutish anxiety...
...progress," retired Danish Industrialist Axel Faber, 66, has decided to establish 100 homes of "rest and seclusion for the cream of humanity." To date, he has sanctuaries available in Japan, France, England, Austria, Italy, Brazil and Mexico. One of them, a luxurious, palm-shaded home on Mexico's Acapulco Bay, has already been christened by greatness. Faber's first guest genius: honeymooning Nobel Prizewinning Physicist Donald Glaser, 34, and his 23-year-old bride...
...theory is illustrated with the case of two middle-aged suburbanites-one male (Hope), one female (Ball), each happily married to somebody else-who have known and mildly disliked each other for years. Then, accidentally, they find themselves in Acapulco for a two-week vacation, alone together and falling in love. They fight it off, swim it off, laugh it off, in the end settle for a nice, safe, neuter idyl that is both hilarious and painful to watch...
...occasion of Franco's downfall. In the 17 years since then, El Caudillo has looked as healthy as ever, while age has begun to slow up even the indefatigable Casals, who just turned 84. In the course of his birthday celebrations, the composer bowed to the inevitable: in Acapulco, at the climax of a two-week Mexican Casals festival that ended last week, he mounted the podium to give El Presebre its world premi...
...term debt and complete his major projects under way. For more than $5,000,000, he sold his 200-year lease (with options) on Manhattan's posh St. Regis Hotel to Mexico's Cesar Balsa, 37, a onetime bellhop whose nine-hotel chain in Mexico City and Acapulco is the largest in Central America. The sale completed the financial legerdemain begun last February when Webb & Knapp bought the St. Regis for $14 million. Two months later it sold the hotel to Manhattan's Kratter Corp. for $11 million, kept operating control. Webb & Knapp's estimated profit...