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Trouble at the building site began almost as soon as ground was broken. The Government's general contractor, J.W. Bateson Co., of Dallas, started construction in the fall of 1968. When the work crew arrived from Local 210, a convicted bookie was on hand to serve as union foreman. The union official in charge of keeping time cards for the laborers was 300-lb. Sammy Lagattuta. His stout figure is a familiar one to police. He is at present awaiting trial on a federal charge of loan-sharking conspiracy...
Unlike some other commentators on modern woman, Dr. Bateson defines and accepts gratefully a distinct and creative role for women. A woman's latitude of freedom is wider than a man's, she feels, because a woman can have a career or not, while society forces all men to work...
...bodies give us a standard of creativity, an alternative and basis for rejecting trivial work," Dr. Bateson said. That the fact that a woman must choose the herself from several meaningful alternatives forces her to the painful rejection of desirable identities which cannot all be fulfilled...
...Bateson feels that these considerations could lead women to make major contributions toward solving current social problems...
...Bateson emphasized that each woman must define her own role. "It is not what the man-world will let us do, but what we can meaningfully do best that's important, she said...