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Spring break already made news this season when semi-serious stories were filed from Cancun by CBS' Seth Doane and NBC's Mark Potter, contrasting the carefree revels of drunken students on the resort strip with the gun violence of narcotics gangs in the city proper. Now Ben Tracy strips away such half-assed pretense at sober journalism and goes the Full Monty to present us with the pure joy of cavorting coeds on CBS. Count a montage of 20 different shots of scantily-clad babes in Palm Springs.
Tracy took us back in time to 1963 with clips from the movie Palm Springs Weekend to show its origin as a spring break mecca. "In the '80s things got ugly. Alcohol-fueled riots cost the city millions." The police had a slogan--Come on Vacation. Leave on Probation--to deter youth and Mayor Sonny Bono enacted a ban on string bikinis. They were dubbed Bono's No-No's. "The students left. Palm Springs got quiet. Too quiet." Hotel occupancy declined--until this year when the city's tourism bureau seized the opportunity afforded by the cancelations of trips to Mexico. And what do those oldies feel about swimming among string bikinis once more? "They do not seem to mind."
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