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Scott Wilson of Boca Raton, Fla. , was "as close to being dead as he could be without being dead," according to Surgeon Frank Veith of Montefiore Medical Center in New York City. Wilson, 25, a landscaper and father of four, was spraying weeds with the herbicide paraquat on Aug. 30, when the equipment apparently malfunctioned and he accidentally inhaled the toxic chemical. Paraquat lodges in the muscle tissue and travels in the blood to the lungs, where it does continual damage as long as it remains in the body. After steadily declining in a Florida hospital, Wilson was transferred...
...Contessa de Boca Raton stands, leonine in her splendor, arms akimbo, before a room of unconscious noble men and women. Overcome with the ennui which plagues her class, she had stepped outside for a smoke while the guests of her sister-in-law, the Grafina Spielstein, chattered pointlessly. Her husband, the Duke de Imbroglio is off in search of young children, as he is wont to do after a drink or two. The Contessa has reentered after only a few minutes to find her fellow nobles blitzed on some non-medicinal herb. She is disgusted and lonely. She spits...
Interstate banking on the move "The view of the U.S. Government expressed by courts and regulators that savings banks don't compete with commercial banks can only be described as bizarre." Thus said Citicorp Chairman Walter Wriston two years ago at a convention of bankers in Boca Raton, Fla., when he lashed out at regulations that for bid a bank from doing commercial busi ness in another state. But despite those rules, New York's Citicorp has forged ahead in its ambitious plans to begin tap ping the $833 billion pool of consumer deposits held by American savings...
Members of the Boca set mostly earn their money from things visible: real estate, high-tech electronics, retail chains, minerals and oil. They are generally in businesses that can be handled over the phone. Floyd and Bonnie Perkins spend most of their winters at their four-bed room home in Boca Raton. According to Bonnie, Floyd calls his oil-and gas-drilling company in Cambridge, Ohio, periodically and asks, "Are we making any money?" Then he says, "O.K., we'll stay another...
Unlike the old rich, Florida's nouveaux have no time for gardening. There are service companies to zap the crabgrass and prune the azaleas. In fact, most new Boca abodes come with preplanted gardens. One developer installed 350 royal palms on his plots. Other services take care of pools and window-washing. There are almost no live-in servants in any of the houses. Even $2 million "cottages" are as nearly maintenance-free as possible. Most new arrivals expect to walk into a readymade environment, with none of the bother of planning or decorating. Some builders, like Stephen Chefan...