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...Hawaii went, Puerto Rico will not go. That seemed to be the message handed down by the island's voters in this month's election. They turned out of office Governor Luis Ferré, 68, an advocate of statehood, and installed in his place Rafael Hernández Colón, 36, a handsome and articulate supporter of Puerto Rico's 20-year commonwealth ties to the United States...
...Progressive Party, which broke the Popular Democratic Party's 28-year lock on the Governor's mansion in 1968 largely because of a major split in its ranks. With Ferré out of office and his statehood platform discredited, the Progressives will likely join Puerto Rico's myriad other minority parties. As if in recognition of the fact, Ferré announced his retirement from active politics shortly after the election...
...largest city after San Juan, he assumed leadership of both the party and the Senate in 1969 with the tacit approval of Luis Muñoz Marín, founder of the party, architect of the commonwealth agreement and, more than anyone else, father of modern-day Puerto Rico. This year Muñoz campaigned for his protégé. Hernández reorganized the Popular Democratic Party from top to bottom, replacing older leaders with new, fresh faces...
Early this season, without him, the Sox had foundered in the second division. With his return, Yas and Rico and Reggie started to hit and Baltimore was overtaken with two weeks left. It the flag was to be Boston"s it would be Luis...
...spring, reports will start to trickle back to Boston from Winter Haven; stories of Yaz, and Rico, and Reggie, and some rookie who won't make it. But until then, these who live this game again and again will wonder: "If only Aparicio hadn't fallen down...