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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...
...nonfiction book called The Promise of Space are selling briskly in bookstores. Some 22,000 miles above the equator, communications satellites are relaying TV pictures and telephone calls between the continents. The movie, the books and the satellites all have something in common: they are the brainchildren of Arthur C. Clarke, a tall, springy and remarkably imaginative Englishman whose writing bridges the gap between the far reaches of science fiction and the intricate realities of scientific fact...
...evidence, she was a mortally serious Christian and a ferociously committed artist, a childless woman who lay in her bed and labored every day for six hours a day, all year for more than 40 years, to bring forth a race of poems. The worst of them are idiot brainchildren afflicted with echolalia; the best of them are fierce and radiant creatures of the metaphysical imagination. In Dirge for the New Sunrise, dated the day the bomb fell on Hiroshima, Dame Edith writes in her ultimate Miltonic manner...
Such coin counting has spawned sincere flattery: imitation Disneylands are shooting up across the country. The best are the brainchildren of drawling, blunt-talking Texan C. V. Wood, 38, a onetime industrial engineer whose survey on Disneyland's prospects so impressed the master that he was invited in to build the park. At present, Wood is supervising construction of five others (including Denver's Magic Mountain, Great Southwest Park near Dallas, Montana Magica in Caracas), has half a dozen more in the planning stage. This week, his latest is open: $4,000,000 Pleasure Island, 14 miles north...
Voters in Madison. Wis. agreed-15,169 to 13,885-to authorize the city to hire cranky old (85) Architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design a municipal auditorium and civic center. Chortled Wright, whose unorthodox and costly brainchildren of the past had set the city's officials to view him with alarm: "The people of Madison have demonstrated that politics...