Word: do-it-yourself
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This is the age of the do-it-yourself man. Nearly everyone has at some time felt the urge to build or create something, whether it be a tall building laid brick by brick until it towers into the sky or just a rhetorical fantasy towering word by word into the infinite majesty of the columns of a daily newspaper. Both the brick structure and the word structure are equally important. If we had no building there would be no place to lay out typewriter, and if we had no typewriter there would be no need for the office building...
Died. L. (for Lewis) Francis Herreshoff, 82, master yacht designer; in Boston. Most widely known for his do-it-yourself designs, Herreshoff built handsome wooden yachts, including Whirlwind, a 1930 contender to defend the America's Cup; and Ticonderoga, a trim, graceful 72-ft. ocean racer (built in 1936), which won the 1966 Transpac race from San Francisco to Honolulu...
...think of nothing I'd like less than having other females, with no medical experience, practice do-it-yourself gynecology on me. What happens after their diagnosis and treatment are wrong? I suppose they will refer the patient to a licensed gynecologist-like my husband-to repair the damage. (MRS.) PATRICIA JARVAIS GEARY Middletown...
...feminists to submit to examination by male gynecologists. Men doctors, some women believe, simply do not understand female attitudes toward gynecological problems. Small groups of women began meeting last year in "selfhelp" cells on the West Coast; they learned to detect, diagnose and sometimes even treat some ailments. Since then, do-it-yourself gynecology has spread to cities across the country...
When New York's Caswell-Massey Co. began selling the oil and other essences for do-it-yourself perfumery, it discovered that many women preferred the musk by itself. "I have to admit we were taken completely by surprise," confesses the firm's president, Ralph Taylor. He and other manufacturers set to bottling the stuff, and sales of the fragrance, which retails at about $5 per half-ounce, are now estimated at $1,000,000 per month. Reports Jovan's Mitchell: "J.C. Penney, Bergdorf Goodman's-they all want musk...