Word: vallarta
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Acapulco, top Pacific Coast beach resort, has no less than 83 international jet flights each week. Even such a recently discovered beach resort as Puerto Vallarta, made famous by the film The Night of the Iguana, is now rushing to completion its own $3,300,000 jet airfield, installing the town's first dial telephones and nearly doubling hotel accommodations...
...where the season usually begins at Easter, was overbooked, despite chilly temperatures. The crowds overflowed from the more popular islands like Jamaica and Barbados outward to lesser-knowns: Martinique, St. Maarten, St. Lucia and Grenada are all filled to the gunwales. In Mexico, Acapulco is jammed and, in Puerto Vallarta, beach space is hard to come by. The big boom, which began before Christmas, reached its peak in mid-January and has stayed there ever since...
From New York to Puerto Vallarta to Big Sur to Paris, LIFE Magazine Reporter Richard Meryman Jr. traveled with Elizabeth Taylor, tape-recording her story in automobiles, hotels, restaurants. From nearly 40 hours of tape came a 6,000-word first-person article, published last week in LIFE. Some passages from her apologia...
...slimy 99° in Manhattan is strictly for lizards, but 2,500 hot-blooded types nevertheless turned out for the $100-a-seat premiere of Night of the Iguana at Philharmonic Hall. The acoustics were spotty as usual, the beef Puerto Vallarta even worse, and Mrs. Burton, in star-spangled blue, presided until Dickie showed up after curtains at Hamlet. But honors for the evening went to Ava Gardner, 41, in aqua satin, looking generations lovelier than the blowsy harridan she played onscreen. With the hordes outside hollering "We want Ava," she could hardly wait until after supper to flee...
...scripted skits began with Hoke Singer Allan Sherman's parody of the recent doings at Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to the tune of The Streets of Laredo...