Delilah�s attraction towards Asa heated the rivalry between him and Bo

Angry with Asa, Bo renounced the Buchanan name; declaring that his new name was �Bo Ralston.� Pat became jealous when Bo began dating Georgina Whitman, a bright and beautiful scientist, who had come to town with Pat�s old flame, Tony Lord. Tony and Georgina were on a top-secret project involving Solarmite, a rare metal-mineral which they hoped could be mined, processed and then used as a cheap alternative to oil fuel.

Discovering huge stores of Solarmite under the Llanfair and Moor Cliffe mansions, Bo teamed up with Georgina and Tony, and engaged in a bitter battle with Asa and his new partner, Dorian Lord, who had recently separated from her husband, Herb Callison. Despite saving each other�s lives in a pair of near tragedies from the Solarmite project, Bo and Asa failed to reconcile. The two stubborn men remained estranged. Bo�s romance with Georgina fizzled and she left Llanview.

Pat came to accept Tony�s adventurous lifestyle. After years of off and on again make up�s and break up�s, the two finally married in a beautiful wedding ceremony that summer.

Bo�s quest to discover his �Ralston� roots took him to Louisiana, where he met his Aunt Euphemia and his cousins Drew and Delilah, who returned to Llanview with Bo to bring down the Buchanan empire and restore the Ralston fortune. Once in Llanview, Drew developed a fascination for Asa�s ex-wife, Samantha. Bo and Delilah, meanwhile, were instantly smitten with each other, but hindered by their being related. While coping with her forbidden feelings for Bo, Delilah caught the eye of Asa, who steadfastly pursued the young beauty.

Marco and Karen finally cleared their names in the counterfeiting scheme. Upon Viki�s spurning Clint�s proposal of marriage, he resigned from The Banner to accept a new position as executive editor at its chief competitor, The Chronicle. The battle lines were drawn! Llanview�s press war took on new fury when Clint lured prize-winning reporter Edwina Lewis away from The Banner. Working side by side, Clint and Edwina began a torrid affair.

Larry eagerly anticipated marrying Mimi King. Just before the wedding, Larry met up with the renowned Dr. Hugo Wilde, who was actually his mortal enemy, Dr. Ivan Kipling! Kipling coldly informed Larry that he was about to atone for his sins. Placed on an operating table, Larry screamed in horror as he realized that Ivan was about to perform surgery on him. Larry awoke with no memory of what had taken place and was unaware that Ivan now controlled his every move through a device implanted in his brain. Returning to Llanview, Larry never showed up for his own wedding. Instead of marrying Mimi, Larry had gone straight to Karen, telling her that he still loved her dearly. Kipling�s ultimate aim, though, was to capture Karen. When Captain Ed Hall grew suspicious of Kipling�s strange activities, Kipling implanted a device in his brain too. Kipling finally blackmailed Karen into coming to South America with him, to spare the lives of Larry and Ed, who were saved in the nick of time by emergency surgery.