Word: rays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Worsen they did. The ripples of Elizabeth Ray's profitable true-confessions caper continued to spread. The FBI, TIME discovered last week, had landed a current version of Watergate's Deep Throat. This anonymous source, who might be tagged Jack the Tipper, has taken to calling the FBI three to four times a day. In tones of outrage, Jack has demonstrated pinpoint knowledge about some of Capitol Hill's darker corners. Investigators believe that he may be a member of Congress or a legislative aide. "Whoever he is," says one official involved in the inquiry...
Though it was no consolation to Hays, he was getting company on the griddle last week. Armed with a book containing pictures of all members of Congress, FBI agents have been interviewing hotel desk clerks, among others, to discover Ray's other playmates. Another cozy arrangement came to light when Colleen Gardner, 30, decided to tell much, if not all. A former secretary to Congressman John Young, 59, a Texas Democrat, Gardner claims that she received large pay raises-her salary had gone from $8,500 to nearly $26,000 when she quit in March-on condition that...
...scandal threatened to touch still others in Washington. At week's end Gardner said that in 1972 or '73 she had stumbled upon Alaska Democratic Senator Mike Gravel making love to Ray on a houseboat owned by former Congressman Kenneth Gray of Illinois, Ray's ex-boss. Gravel denied the accusation. Meanwhile, Ray preened in a strange celebrity status that made her seem a combination of Virginia Hill and Typhoid Mary. She attracted stares and journalists at every stop. But when she showed up at Duke Zeibert's last week, at least...
...around big names: Mayor Abe Beame was aboard, one said, and that would help with the Jewish voters, and Chicago's Dick Daley was issuing compliments. Staffer Rick Hutchinson, who at 24 looks like one of the painters of Tom Sawyer's fence, spoke of Tennessee Governor Ray Blanton being the key to that state's uncommitted bloc and the chances he would deliver its nine delegates. There was talk about Alaska's Mike Gravel endorsing, and the need to work on Hawaii Senator Dan Inouye. Perhaps Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge, a close friend of Inouye...
...problem was sloppy welding and shoddy inspection-and apparently attempts to cover them up-in a 144-mile stretch of the pipeline between the Yukon River and a point south of Fairbanks. Ketchbaw Industries, a Houston firm, had a subcontract to perform X-ray tests of the welding; those tests had been required to reduce chances of a serious oil spill. Last year a Ketchbaw employee charged that there had been falsification of some tests. The pipeline consortium investigated the charges, decided that they had substance, and brought a suit against Ketchbaw. Ketchbaw denies falsification and has filed a countersuit...