Word: do-it-yourself
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CUBA Do-It-Yourself Airlift
...rest of the fleet consisted mostly of standard inboards and outboards that might have come from a showroom window. But Jerry Langer's No. 10 was strictly do-it-yourself. An out-board-engine dealer from Miami Beach, Langer had borrowed a Fiberglas mold, poured himself a hull, tacked two ordinary 90-h.p. motors on the back. Just before the race, he decided that he didn't like the pitch of his propellers, so he took a hammer and pounded away until they looked "about right...
...however, are the goods, which are tailored to Latin American tastes. Clothing styles owe more to Europe than the U.S. The tool and paint departments, which are mainstays in the U.S., scarcely exist in Latin America, where cheap labor and a middle-class aversion to manual work prevent any do-it-yourself...
GENERATION. "Do-it-yourself" is the operative philosophy of a resolutely anti-conformist young couple in a Greenwich Village loft. They even plan to deliver their own baby-until Father-in-Law Henry Fonda flies in from Chicago, thwarts their plans and charms the audience...
GENERATION. "Do-it-yourself" is the operative philosophy of a resolutely anticon-formist young couple in a Greenwich Village loft. They even plan to deliver their own baby-until Father-in-law Henry Fonda flies in from Chicago, thwarts their plans and charms the audience...