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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spacy and Dim. To be sure, the Congressman's accuser is no more admirable. A frustrated would-be actress and model, Liz Ray wandered from job to job (airline ticket agent, waitress, car-rental clerk) after her graduation from high school in Asheville, N.C., in 1962. She first appeared in Washington in the mid-'60s, landing a job as hostess in a restaurant. Her ex-employer says he called her "Excedrin-she was such a headache," and fired her after about five months because "she was hustling...
...very intelligent. If I took her out somewhere, I'd tell her not to say anything. Now and then she'd forget and call me the next day to apologize." Then Liz latched onto Tom Sarris, a Washington restaurateur. She scratched the paint on the car of a woman she thought was competing for Sarris' attention-and was given a suspended sentence for "destruction of property." Her former boy friends generally describe her as nutty, spacy, neurotic...
Last Thursday, as time and chances to qualify for one of the ten remaining openings in the 33-car field closed in on her, Guthrie huddled despondently on a workbench in the back of her garage, looking haggard, while teammates lowered the fourth new engine in two weeks into her balky No. 27. Burned-out pistons were a consistent problem, but even when running smoothly the car was no blue streak, failing to get within reach of the 180-m.p.h. speed probably necessary for qualification. With her best lap going into the last day of qualification a low 173.611, Guthrie...
...make it or not, "The Girl," as she is regularly called, has paid her dues in big-time racing. As for the adversity? "I think it actually is helping her," said Indy's chief steward Tom Binford. "If she'd come out here in some slick car and zipped around, people would've said, 'Well, hell, anybody can do it with that car.' " Said another Indy official privately: "She hasn't got a chance in that car. In another car, she'd finish the race...
...Gasoline Alley is still full of those who say the 5-ft. 9-in., 135-lb. Guthrie will never make a showing in any car, because first, she is a woman, and, second, she doesn't have the physical strength to finish a race, the rigors of which sometimes cause drivers to lose 10 lbs. "That's a bunch of malarkey," says Teammate Dick Simon. "Anybody who's been around here long knows it's the mental strength that counts." Janet Guthrie has displayed plenty of that...