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...three decades, Luis Muñoz Marin and his Popular Democratic Party presided over Puerto Rico's transformation from an impoverished Caribbean stepchild of the U.S. to a commonwealth of increasingly robust economic health. Then, in 1965, Muñoz's hand-picked successor, Roberto Sánchez Vilella, took over. Muñoz, who went into semiretirement as a senator, continued to maintain a jealous watch over the aging party that he had founded. Increasingly irked by his successor's independent ways, he and a coalition of P.D.P. leaders last week denied Sáchez nomination...
...Congress its cue. Maryland's Democratic Senator Joseph Tydings, the sponsor of a tough bill that would require licenses for the purchase and possession of firearms and ammunition, and registration of the weapons, was deluged with 10,000 letters supporting his stand. San Francisco as well as neighboring Marin County passed a registration ordinance. In Chicago, a voluntary turn-in campaign has prompted the surrender of 75 guns a day. Florida's Jordan Marsh and Burdine's chains quit selling toy guns, while Sears, Roebuck, the world's largest retailer, stopped advertising weapons as well...
Three decades ago, Roberto Sánchez Vilella forswore the engineering career for which he had been trained and, at the invitation of Luis Muñoz Marin, entered Puerto Rican politics. Muñoz's Popular Democratic Party prospered. Its founder became so revered and pow erful a figure that when, in 1964, he relinquished the governorship after 16 years, he had no difficulty anointing Sánchez, his protégé and closest ad viser, as his successor. Last week Sánchez formally broke with his old men tor by announcing that he would...
That does not seem to bother School Director Peter Marin, 32, who has a B.A. in English from Swarthmore and an M.A. in English from Columbia but was fired from Los Angeles State College because of his "eccentric" teaching ways. A quondam poet who once played poker for a living in Manhattan, he contends that "it doesn't matter what goes on at this school as long as the kids are learning...
Realizing that 120 newspapers in Paris and the French provinces are not enough to finance A.F.P.'s worldwide operations, Marin is conscious of the need to expand abroad. Toughest market to crack thus far has been the Anglo-American press. This year A.F.P. at least got its foot in the door when both the New York Times and the Times of London joined its growing list of regular subscribers...