Word: acapulco
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...keeping with his policy of paying special attention to U.S. neighbors -demonstrated in his meeting in March 1956 with Mexico's Adolfo Ruiz Cortines and Canada's Louis St. Laurent, and last July with Canada's Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker-he flew southwest to Acapulco to confer with Mexico's new President Adolfo Lopez Mateos (TIME, Dec. 8) on neighbors' problems ranging from dam building on the Rio Grande to lead and zinc markets. Result: cheers and carnations strewn in Acapulco's streets for the two Presidents, marked enhancement of U.S. good-neighbor...
...though millions of U.S. citizens have seen it themselves, the country south of the border is still mostly a colorful legend. It is-to many Americans-unsanitary and exotic, the place where Aunt Clara got dysentery and watched dark-skinned boys dive 165 ft. into a surging wave at Acapulco. It is violent: the plump señora in the cartoon scolds her sombreroed husband as he cleans his pistol, saying "Oh, Pablo, you're not going back into politics!" In the cities it has modern hotels, traffic jams, skyscrapers and ocherous murals; in the country drowsy peons...
...post-election meeting with a top-ranking U.S. official, Mexico's President-elect Adolfo López Mateos invited a man he had never met. but had come to respect from a distance. Texas Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson, Senate majority leader. In a sun-drenched hotel cottage overlooking Acapulco Bay one morning this week, the Mexican and the Texan pulled up chairs to a breakfast of diced tropical fruit, eggs and coffee, and started talking...
...although the difference is hard to tell), who get involved with two moth-eaten California Cleopatras. One of them is Billie, who talks exclusively in Southern-fried cliches; the other is Eva, statuesque, free, pagan, and therefore known as "The Greek." The story rambles from a Malibu motel to Acapulco; the characters whinny in bed, cry "Man, it's great!" and engage in minor unimaginative forms of sadism. It is just possible that Author Morris is kidding, but neither the lechers nor the beauty-shop matrons to whom the book is addressed may notice it. At any rate, there...
...police grilled Waiter Rios, whose share of the loot had been only $200 in cash. Rios admitted that Fenton had hired him to help rob the couple. On the 17th day Fenton lost his nerve; news had arrived that two bodies had been washed ashore 100 miles north of Acapulco...