Word: vilella
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plans to push Puerto Rico out of its halfway house is Governor Roberto Sanchez Vilella, a long time protégé of the legendary Luis Munoz Marin, who retired as chief executive in January 1965. A quiet, pipe-smoking administrator, Sanchez last week sent to his legislature no fewer than 34 pro osals, the first part of a dynamic and demanding 85-point program designed to reorient Bootstrap to the island's new problems...
...friend and welcoming a new one as the next Governor of Puerto Rico. Stepping down at last was Luis Muñoz Marin, 66, the island commonwealth's leader for the past 16 years. Into the Governor's La Fortaleza palace went Roberto Sánchez Vilella, 51, Muñoz' able Secretary of State (Vice Governor) and hand-picked successor who has worked faithfully for el maestro since 1948. "There is no substitute for Muñoz," says Sánchez. "I am simply going to be the next Governor, and I hope a good...
...Governor Sánchez. When last August's Popular Democratic Convention rolled around, Muñoz announced that he would not stand for re-election but would run for a senate seat from which he could "renew my contact with the people and the country." Sánchez Vilella was nominated by acclamation to fill his shoes...
...Puerto Rico no one can really succeed Luis Muñoz Marin-and no one knows it better than Sánchez Vilella. He is extremely shy, has none of the klieg-light blaze and charm of Muñoz. Last week, while Muñoz fought through his farewell speech, Sánchez Vilella stood nervously mopping his face with a handkerchief balled tightly around an ice cube. "I was paralyzed," he said later. "It was awful. There was one moment when the crowd was almost hysterical, shouting 'No, no,' and I was snouting it too. Inside...
...says Sánchez Vilella, "and we cannot be afraid...