MEXICO: Appointment in Acapulco

In Pacific-coast Acapulco, Mexico's hibiscus-cum-chromium Riviera resort, this is the time of year when the dizzy whirl of swimming, sunning, sipping and sinning spins fastest, and each night's gaiety produces a ration of racy gossip for the shorts-and-halter set to savor the next day. But never before was there such a scandal as the one that had the peso-elite buzzing last week. Its ingredients were tried and true: a deceived socialite wife, a smoking pistol, a far-from-bullet-proof husband and a toothsome girl who was—in the fashionable Mexican euphemism—the husband's "second front." Holiday Buildup....

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