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Speaker Carl Albert summoned Hays last Wednesday to discuss the chairman's future. "I will handle this," Albert had told party lieutenants. But Albert was in an awkward position. The Speaker himself had often been seen accompanying young women around town. Moreover, his home district back in Oklahoma was in an uproar over TIME'S story (June 7) about reports that Liz Ray and other women had participated in orgies in the "Board of Education," a Capitol hideaway assigned to Albert. Said Albert: "If that's true, I've never heard...
Getty got a good start toward his fortune, but it was his own drive and peculiar genius that elevated him to the ranks of the world's wealthiest. The son of a prosperous Minneapolis lawyer who decided to wildcat for oil in Oklahoma (then Indian Territory) in 1903, Jean Paul spent two years at the University of California and another two years at Oxford before he reported to work in his father's firm. By that time, buoyed by a lucky early strike, George F. Getty had made several million and formed a thriving company. With his father...
...bosses and officeholders, a substantial number are mainly middle-class Americans with long records of hard-slogging service to their parties-ringing doorbells, running Xerox machines, driving voters to the polls on election days. They include an air-pollution technician from Virginia, a haberdasher from Kansas, a housewife from Oklahoma and a community antipoverty organizer from New York. Some Governors, big-city mayors and state chairmen head uncommitted groups, but their persuasive powers may be lost on the individual delegates; many intend to vote their own consciences...
Srouji's ties to the FBI might have gone undetected if she had not been involved in another sensitive matter: the mysterious death of Karen Silkwood (TIME, Jan. 20, 1975). An Oklahoma plutonium worker active in her union, Silkwood was killed in a 1974 auto accident while on the way to tell a reporter about alleged health and nuclear safety violations in the plant where she worked. Just before returning to the Tennessean, Srouji finished writing Critical Mass, a paean to the nuclear industry to be released this summer by Aurora Publishers Inc., a small Nashville concern. The book...
...working at night. A year and a half ago, she sold two articles about the nuclear safety controversy to Nashville! magazine. It was when Aurora asked her to write a book on the subject that she reestablished her contact with Olson, now assigned to the FBI's Oklahoma City office, where he helped conduct the bureau's Silkwood investigation. Over a two-month period, Srouji testified, she was allowed to photocopy bureau summaries of the inquiry. Some months before Srouji rejoined the Tennessean last fall, she began passing information to the FBI. This included details of interviews...