January 1969

TEN MOST COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT ESTATE PLANNING

The only way to be sure your family receives the maximum benefits from your possessions after you're gone is to make plans now. And estate planning, simply put, means analyzing your assets and making the legal arrangements needed to safeguard them and pass them on to the right heirs-- with the least trouble (or shrinkage).

HOW TO MAKE THE PUNCH ON OUR COVER--AND MORE

SAVE ON OFF-SEASON CENTRAL AIR CONDITIONING

This is by all odds the best time of the year to be shopping for central air conditioning for your house. Manufacturers must keep their production lines busy and right now they are less than swamped with orders for equipment.

FOUL-WEATHER DRIVING

The battery is said to be the cause of 70 percent of all starting failures. If this is true, it's only because improper functioning of any element in the starting system puts an extra load on the battery and decreases its efficiency.

PRODUCT GUIDE FOR FAST IDEAS

The latest in products to make those fast ideas go really fast. Clip and save to make future projects go fast, too.

FAST IDEAS

If you don't have time for do-it-yourself projects-- this issue is for you! All these projects are fast because of some new material or product or technique that makes the job easier for the home handyman-- or even possible for the first time. We'll also demonstrate how to short-cut your cooking, using the best of today's convenience foods and those special tricks only good cooks know. So, pick your project and fly with us!

HOW TO ORDER MATERIAL FROM THE MAGAZINE

SEASONING FOODS WITH MIXES

... seasonings can come from ... packages of dry seasoned ... those pre-blended ... especially made for ... dressings, soups, dips, ... sauces. Try using them to ... your favorite recipes-- ... discover flavor possibilities galore.

GOOD NEWS FOR MEN!

Here's a selection of new products especially chosen to help make your "Fast Ideas" projects go even faster.

YOUR PLANNING GUIDE TO JAPAN

In this jet age, "mysterious, inaccessible Japan" is no longer so mysterious and hardly inaccessible. Immediately on your arrival, its fascinations are apparent. In neon-blinking, sky-scrapered Tokyo, you see kimono-clad elders clap-clacking along in wooden get as. Through the honking horns of traffic along wide boulevards comes the plaintive cry of the soba peddler, pushing his cart, hawking his hot noodles.

NEW FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY AT DISNEYLAND

Imagine it's 200 years ago and you're a passenger on a small boat picking its way carefully along a dark and treacherous stretch of coastline on the Spanish Main. Suddenly pandemonium breaks loose. The air resounds with the roar of cannons and the crackle of muskets. A band of pirates is attacking a town and you're right in the middle! The rogues are every where-- taunting the town council, auctioning off the women, plundering the shops.

SIGHTS AND CRAFTS IN PERU AND ECUADOR

Natives and their artifacts are still the most popular attractions in Peru and Ecuador. A gentle Peruvian started it all 57 years ago when he told American archaeologist Hiram Bingham about the hidden city where he grew splendid crops by using a terraced irrigation system built five centuries before.

SOUTHERN FLORIDA'S SUNNY GULF BEACHES

You'll find little of the "Gold Coast" glitter on Florida's western shores. Today, as in bygone years, this is still wide-open country of unspoiled, unbelievably white beaches, of palmetto jungles and mysterious islands formed of tangled roots, of sunsets that melt into the sea.

THE BEST OF ITALY BY CAR

Where will the waiter peel an orange right at your table-- and smile while he's doing it? Where will you hear a maid singing out her lusty soul while she's dusting your room?

A HOME OFFICE IN MINIMUM SPACE

Who says a home office has to look businesslike? Untangling the family checking account is much less a chore in a spirited setting than a somber one. Put some zing into the background-- with pattern or texture-- and in place of the conventional desk-- how about a drop-leaf or Parson's table? Solve your storage needs with wall shelves and personalize your "office" with mementos.

SHOPPING EDITOR'S CHOICE

Discover the fun and convenience of shopping by mail! You can order with complete confidence any of the items shown: each company will refund your money if you're not delighted.

THE MAN NEXT DOOR

Resolving to renew resolutions abandoned 360 days ago, I am reminded that January, like the proverbial road to hell, is paved with good intentions.