Word: do-it-yourself
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Among the do-it-yourself books, two are getting the most play...
Dacey's book appalls lawyers-and not just because the author is a nonlawyer whose main business is selling mutual funds. The charge is that Dacey's do-it-yourself forms can hardly be relied on amid the wildly disparate laws of all 50 states. Last week the American Bar Association denounced the book, warned that using the forms without the help of a local lawyer is an invitation to disaster-to say nothing of almost inevitable probate...
However alluring, such plans have so many built-in problems that they obviously require skilled help as well as constant review in the light of changing assets and laws. Whatever the pros and cons of revocable living trusts, one thing is clear: don't use a do-it-yourself book-get a first-rate lawyer...
...built a 13-ft. sailboat and sailed it across the Gulf of Siam, a 16-hour crossing. He was accompanied by a small flotilla escort of the Royal Thai Navy, and a motorboat using a new design of jet propulsion that Bhumibol himself had conceived. His current project: a do-it-yourself helicopter (see MODERN LIVING). Last week, as the King and Queen were enjoying the first of the monsoon rains, breaking the most torrid weather in years, news of the discovery of a new royal white elephant reached the summer palace at Hua Hin. It was the third...
...that LSD can be a danger. He has promised to forgo his own weekly LSD séances for a year, and recommends a similar moratorium for his disciples. Perfectly good hallucinations, he insists, can be had from yoga, movies or music. To prove it, he plans to run a do-it-yourself hallucination school at Millbrook this summer-if he is still around...