Word: barish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both GRAMCO and U.S. Investment Fund are the brainchildren of a one time White House summer intern, GRAMCO President and Founder Keith Barish, 25. Even before he left the University of Miami after his junior year in 1965, Barish had accumulated a small fortune with various enterprises, including a housing project in Mexico; he had also founded Manufacturer's National Bank of Hialeah (assets: $10 million) and become a director of Hamilton Life Insurance Co. Though his first love was politics ("I thought the greatest thing in the world would be to be a U.S. Congressman"), Barish decided...
...give his venture prestige, Barish shrewdly enlisted as directors of GRAMCO Ltd. not only Salinger but half a dozen other Government aides. Among them: former HEW Under Secretary Ivan Nestingen, former Commerce Department Executive John Stillman and former White House Assistant Richard Donahue. As chairman, a role that he assumed on leaving Continental...
Determined to discover why they were having so little success helping young drug addicts to kick the habit, Social Worker Herbert Barish and Presbyterian Minister Edward Brown began playing detective on the streets of Manhattan's Lower East Side. After 18 months, they are satisfied that they have found the villain: she is that pillar of American culture known to every American...
...Epidemic. Barish and Brown got onto Mom's trail because the tranquilizers being handed out at Brown's East Side Narcotics Center were not helping addicts to fight the seething anxieties of withdrawal. The two men soon learned that the once potent medicine had not suddenly gone sour; the addicts' mothers were either not giving their boys enough of the tranquilizers or were flushing the pills right down the toilet...
...Tough Campaigner. What motivated the women to be so destructive? Most of them, said Social Worker Barish, fitted a neurotic pattern. They were "suffering, protective and interfering." Usually their husbands had left them, and so great was their need for their sons' love that they managed to ignore the boys' addiction to heroin. "The mother," explained Clergyman Brown, "has a vested interest in perpetuating the addiction, as it gratifies her need for a dependent...