Word: acapulco
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...garish Acapulco the lavishly jeweled American widow and her elderly lawyer friend were steered everywhere by a handsome Mexican-American travel agent. Young Luis Fenton was a great find. His office was right in their hotel, Las Hamacas. Wealthy Mrs. Edith Hallock, 63, even wrote home admiringly about him to her sister in New York. With the help of Luis, 33, she and Joseph A. Michel, 70, saw everything-from the thrilling high dives of bronzed young natives off the towering sea cliffs to the intriguing low dives along the waterfront. Luis arranged a midnight yacht trip for the happy...
...finally the police were called. Searching the rooms, the police found all in perfect order: baggage seemingly untouched, an unfinished letter on Mrs. Hallock's desk. In short order the case bounced onto front pages around the U.S. Alarmed at the potential damage to its booming tourism, Acapulco called in the Federal Security Police. As day after day passed with no word, Mrs. Hallock's distraught sister, Mrs. Edith Hoffman, arrived from New York. She promptly revealed that the missing couple's good friend in Acapulco had been Luis Fenton...
...Getty Oil, he controls 64½% of Tidewater Oil*($460 million worth), 59% of Skelly Oil (worth $335 million). He also has .417% of the Iranian Oil Consortium (worth about $8,000,000) and Oklahoma's $15 million Spartan Aircraft Co., $10 million worth of real estate from Acapulco to Manhattan's plush Hotel Pierre...
...surf off the Mexican resort of Acapulco swam a typical Hollywood twosome, dashing Cinemactor Michael Wilding and jet-powered Cinemagnate Michael Todd. After splashing about, the two Mikes reportedly had a drink together. Then twice-married Mike Wilding ex ited after freeing his ailing wife, Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 24, who had a relapse after a shopping tour with him, to get a divorce and marry twice-married Mike Todd, twice...
...says he has already cleared his plans with the U.S. Justice Department, whose trustbusters (TIME, Feb. 20) forced the chain to sell Washington's Mayflower, St. Louis' Jefferson and New York's Roosevelt hotels. Within a year, Hilton will open other new hotels in Mexico City, Acapulco, Havana, Cairo and Montreal...