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...major legislative matters, started lecturing his party on the need for becoming "more democratic," and urged senators and representatives to become more independent. When Muñoz was away from his desk, the man he left in charge was Secretary of State (Vice Governor) Roberto Sánchez Vilella, 51, a U.S.-educated (Ohio State) civil engineer who has been Muñoz' able and dedicated top lieutenant for 16 years. If and when Muñoz stepped down, Sánchez Vilella was his choice for Governor...
...Awful." A few days before last week's convention, Muñoz called in Sánchez Vilella, told him that he would be nominated for the governorship. Muñoz would still keep a hand in things from his senate seat. But Sánchez Vilella would be in command. "My presence in the senate will be as unobtrusive as possible," said...
...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...
...open door through U.S. tariff walls for anything the island could grow or make, a ready-to-hand brain trust of half a dozen bright young U.S.-educated economists, professors and businessmen. Among them: Rafael Pico, now president of the government's bank, and Roberto Sánchez Vilella, now Secretary of State (Vice-Governor). Rex Tugwell. named Governor, implanted an efficient civil service and a knack for the kind of economic planning that is flexible enough to improvise when necessary. By long tradition, the Puerto Rican government had-and never lost-a notably un-Latin reputation for incorruptibility...