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...chanted approximately 650,000 voices in Puerto Rico last Sunday, drowning out the aphonic sounds of the "Si" supporters to close a sorry chapter of our island's history. By opposing amendments to the Puerto Rican constitution, statehooders and their supporters dealt a severe blow to advocates for Puerto Rico's political rights and national identity, defeating them by a seven percent margin...
Opinions differ on whether Si's tense style of management is necessary. While it is true that the divisions run by his brother have prospered under a low-key leadership, newspapers and cable franchises tend to be de facto monopolies, while magazines and books must battle for attention in an increasingly crowded market and thus must be aggressive to survive. In any case, it is hard to quarrel with the results. As the family fortune has soared, the magazine and book divisions have contributed their share. Random House, bought for $70 million in 1980, went on a spree of acquisition...
Will S.I.'s less tangible legacies survive equally intact? Says Si's son Wynn, 35, a computer programmer in Boston who quit the family business: "The force of my grandfather's personality is imprinted on the entire family. It's a general drive that has come down to succeed and to be a family. The original unity still holds almost completely. But we're only up to the third generation. We have seen many other families that have fractured...
...case, although he and his father are now close, a rocky parent- teenager relationship worsened when Wynn, working as a young photographer for the family-owned Staten Island Advance, was fired by one of his uncles for refusing to cut his long hair. Si did not intervene. Says Wynn: "I don't think my father is that cold. He does have a well-developed poker face. He doesn't always let on what he's thinking...
Neither do other members of the family. TIME sought interviews from six of the family members -- all male -- who work for the company. All declined, including Si, his brother and some descendants who are said to be heirs apparent. Says Si's friend, magazine entrepreneur Peter Diamandis: "The only certainty about what will happen to the company is that, whoever runs it, the boss's family name will be the same...