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Janie Cottrell, 24, sank into her sofa in a pair of dark blue hot pants, crossed her showgirl legs and said, "I wanted to be a certified welder more than anything in the world." Which is just what she is. Janie graduated from Robert E. Lee Institute in Thomaston, Ga., in 1965, decided to enroll in a business course at the local vocational school. "I didn't like any of it," she says, "especially the charm course. One day in the cafeteria the welding teacher walked by and said, 'What's the matter? You look like...
...predictable, "Are you serious?" She talked her way into a job, for which she had to commute 110 miles a day. That forced her to quit after a year, but she remembers with pride, "When I left, the company vice president said I was probably the best aluminum welder he had ever employed...
...trouble finding another welding job, so she countered male reluctance with extreme measures. "This Women's Liberation thing was starting up then, and I just called Governor Maddox and asked him why I couldn't get a job if I was a qualified welder." The state labor department quickly arranged an interview with Scientific Atlanta, Inc., where Janie has worked for three years. She was such an attraction at the plant that the company provided her with curtains to hang around her station. After work she loves Atlanta night life, and her apartment is handsomely decorated with aluminum...
...stared at his small vegetable garden one day last fall, a Collinsville, Okla., welder and farmer named Charles Baker came to the conclusion that his environment was threatened. The reason was 3 ft. underground: a gas pipeline that Baker was convinced would explode like a "time bomb" and maim his family. In four months Baker ran up $1,000 in telephone bills enlisting support from public officials around the U.S. Armed with photographs and witnesses, he then went to the Oklahoma corporation commission, a state agency that regulates pipelines. His charge: the pipeline, part of a $9 million, 144-mile...
...enduring life decently, no matter what, he deeply admires. In this book, for instance, Coles condenses talk and comment, going back as much as five years, with a handful of workingmen and their wives-a steam fitter, a policeman, a filling-station operator, a machinist, a fireman, a welder, a druggist and a bank-loan arranger, the only white-collar man in the group...