Medicine: Plastic Surgery

Else K. LaRoe, a Manhattan plastic surgeon, well knows how much discomfort women will stand in order to have a good figure, or even the illusion of one. She herself is a small, trim, exuberantly vivacious blonde in her forties. She claims to have lifted many faces, corrected many double chins, eye pouches, rolls of body fat. But her specialty is the woman with a "bust problem." She has now collected much of her experience in a book, The Breast Beautiful (Field; $2.50). Few doctors will consider it important, but to women its subject...

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