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Cosmetic surgery is booming among women - and men
We've had more calls than we know what to do with," says Elizabeth Weil. "The phone has been ringing off the hook. Betty Ford has really started something." Weil, the receptionist at a Beverly Hills plastic surgery clinic, is not alone. Across the nation last week, surgeons'...
Betty Ford's debut is the most recent in a string of cosmetic admissions in the '70s by public figures. Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire, for one, issued a press release about his hair transplant and may have had an eyelift too. There has also been news of hair...
The Japanese government had warned the Americans not to expect quick results. Yet the very fact that the mission was invited to Japan raised hopes that the barriers of high tariffs, endless import-icense red tape and discriminatory quotas were being lowered. The experience of the U.S. visitors was sobering...
Many critics call for an outright withdrawal from South Africa on the theory that a sudden exodus would undermine the Vorster regime. Says Franklin H. Williams, a black activist who was U.S. ambassador to Ghana in the late 1960s: "What American companies have done so far has been essentially cosmetic...