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"The work load is tough, and a lot of us are a little tired these days," says a controller at the Aurora Air Traffic Control Center, which clears all planes coming into O'Hare. "But nobody I know has cut a corner, and nobody is too tired to do his job properly." Indeed, FAA officials contend that PATCO diehards, still furious at losing their union status, are intentionally stirring up talk of trouble in the control towers. Obviously, the nation's airports cannot be run indefinitely under present conditions, and the FAA hopes to bring the force of controllers up to full strength, 13,000, by 1984. Meanwhile, officials point with pride to the undisputed fact that the control towers cannot be blamed for a single accident since the strike began.