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Robert J. Scholes Gainesville, Fla...
Throughout its 41-year history, Merrill Lynch & Co. has tried to bring Wall Street to Main Street. By any measure, America's most bullish brokerage house has succeeded. From Bellingham, Wash., to Bradenton, Fla., 75% of all Americans live within 25 miles of one of Merrill Lynch's 476 offices. As a result, the company is bigger than its three closest publicly held competitors-Shearson Loeb Rhoades, E.F. Hutton and Dean Witter Reynolds-put together...
...Americans are being held in Southeast Asia, families of the missing raised a dozen-man commando squad of their own-an underfinanced and overaged group of veterans from the Green Berets. Their improbable training center for an operation code-named "Velvet Hammer" was an academy for cheerleaders in Leesburg, Fla., near Orlando. Their leader was retired Lieut. Colonel James ("Bo") Gritz, 42, a former Army public affairs officer who served in Viet Nam and who now works for Hughes Helicopter in Culver City, Calif. Gritz (rhymes with beets) may not have been the ideal choice to run the secret operation...
DIED. Ross Allen, 73, noted herpetologist who in 1929 founded Ross Allen's Reptile Institute, a research center at Silver Springs, Fla., and who survived eleven bites from the lethal likes of rattlesnakes, copperheads and cottonmouth snakes; of cancer; in Gainesville, Fla. A stand-in for Johnny Weissmuller in the Tarzan movies of the 1930s and '40s, Allen was in the final stages of building a million-dollar tourist attraction called Alligator Town, scheduled to open this summer near Lake City, Fla...
Three Orange County housing workers arrived last Tuesday at the home of Tommy and Mae Rose Owens in Winter Park, Fla., a suburb of Orlando, to complete paperwork on the couple's federal loan for home improvement. But the Owenses were not there. Neither were the house and the yard. They had fallen-along with five expensive foreign cars, a truck, a parking lot, part of a four-lane road and much of a municipal swimming pool-into a sinkhole. That geological oddity resulted when underground limestone caverns, which are usually filled and strengthened by water, were gradually drained...