Word: rays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...author of A Christmas Memory and In Cold Blood will no doubt be surprised to find himself in the company of such renowned novelists as John Ehrlichman and Elizabeth Ray [June 28] and to have the first installment of Answered Prayers dismissed as making his readers "throw up" while his characters eat lunch. When the book is published, those who regard Truman Capote as the gifted writer he is may well throw up while Melvin Maddocks eats his words...
Former Congressman Kenneth Gray, 51, an Illinois Democrat, was one of Ray's patrons until he turned her over to Hays. According to congressional sources, Gray is talking to authorities and offering cooperation with an FBI investigation. Subject: the possible misuse of public funds for sex by Congressmen and Senators. Gray retired from Congress in 1974 after suffering a heart attack. A married man, he was famed on Capitol Hill for his assortment of girls. He also kept a 55-ft. houseboat on the Potomac River for the use of business and congressional colleagues who could be helpful...
While dallying with Congressman Wayne Hays, Liz Ray may have performed few services for the nation in return for her $14,000 salary as a clerk on one of his committees, but she has served the public well since leaving the halls and bowers of Capitol Hill. Her revelations forced the House to consider tightening up its procedures so that the only affairs taxpayers' money is spent on are those of state. The result, adopted last week by the controlling Democrats, might fittingly be called the Liz Ray Reform...
Proper Records. The reformers also sought to reduce Congressmen's special funds and little extras that could be used to employ a woman with Ray's restricted talents. For example, the group voted to abolish the time-honored "cash-outs" system, under which a Congressman gets to keep any money from expense allowances-such as stationery and travel back home-that is not spent. Theoretically, he could pocket up to $11,000 every year. Under the present system, the Congressmen have 14 separate accounts, which they guard and use like so many cookie jars on the mantel. Obey...
...friends and allies, who argued, rather lamely, that the consolidated accounts would become a "slush fund" so offensive to the voters that the majority Democrats would all be thrown out of office. Among those who pointed with alarm was South Carolina's Mendel Davis, who once kept Liz Ray on his payroll as a favor to Hays. Other Democrats, mainly Southerners with safe seats, fought against tightening a system that handed out so many favors so liberally...