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Hot Type, Cold Reality continued

It was my first day on the job and my first trip to the men's restroom at the central office of Heartland Dairies at Prairie Center, a rural area of the Badger State our human resources manager, I later learned, liked to call "the armpit of Wisconsin."

I wondered who had placed the poster in the men's room. But, I didn't ask.

And, I wondered what Lonnie, the receptionist with melting blue eyes and a body the men in the office ogled over, thought of the poster. Or, maybe she didn't know.

Behind closed doors but just 15 feet from Lonnie's desk, the poster daily reinforced the silliness which with the male employees probably viewed the women's movement that was taking shape throughout the country.

"Mr. Foreseth is not at his desk right now," Lonnie answered the telephone. I didn't take much stock in that exchange until I heard the women refer to Mr. Harland, Mr. Sands etc. during their coffee break.

Lonnie and the other clerical staff workers -- all female -- were losing a silent battle within the second-story, brick office of a pre-World War II milk drying plant, and they didn't know it.

In the hallway, I recognized Boyd, production director, as he slipped out of his office with another man behind him.

"This is Jim Hasse, who will be working with Sid Turner on our newsletter," Boyd announced, as he introduced me to Carl, chairman of the board. "Jim has done what most of us haven't had a chance to do -- graduate from college. He took journalism at the UW-Madison."

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