Word: mu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...years to marry a beautiful younger woman, Jeannette Ramos, 35. At the same time, he said he would retire after his current term. The angry reaction virtually drove Sánchez underground for a time. During last summer's plebiscite campaign over Puerto Rico's legal status, Muñoz, now 70 and in semi-retirement as a senator, came back into the arena to marshal the P.D.P.'s successful fight to keep Puerto Rico a commonwealth...
...himself spent the day in seclusion with his family, explaining that a Chinese birthday celebration also marks the solemn mu nan chih jih, or "day of a mother's suffering through childbirth...
...priest in the hippies' Neo-American Church, his face painted gold for the occasion, conducted the double-necklace ceremony. Then to share in the love, 50 of the guests formed a tight huddle around the bride and groom, hugged up close and rocked back and forth to the mu sic, while the lights flashed, balloons burst and everyone chanted the Hindu Hari Krishna (Hail Krishna). Soon everybody was kissing everybody. Nancy was radiant. "Everything's beautiful to the bride," she said. "All I want now is a home in the country where Artie and I can raise children...
...major opponent is Luis A. Ferre, a politically ambitious industrialist with holdings in cement, clay, iron and glass who was twice defeated by Muñoz in gubernatorial campaigns. Forming a nonpartisan group that is known as the United Statehooders, Ferre has developed considerable appeal to the island's growing middle-income group. "Don't you want to be first-class citizens?" asks Ferre. Statehood, he adds, is coming "eventually-so why not now?" Though the island's major statehood and independence parties have officially refused to endorse the plebiscite, factions of both groups are actively campaigning...