Word: rays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Election Fears. These were the reverberations from the confession of Elizabeth Ray, 33, a comely if shopworn blonde, that she had been employed as a $14,000-a-year congressional committee clerk by Wayne Hays; the Ohio Democrat, for the sole purpose of being one of his sexual playmates. Hays, 65, and apparently insatiable, admitted the relationship but protested unpersuasively that Ray had done other work too. Few of the many men who had encountered Liz during her four years on Capitol Hill knew of any talents beyond the bedroom. Congressional Democrats pressed for Hays to resign his committee chairmanships...
Democrats were hoping that Ray had been sexually bipartisan. Though she did seem to favor the majority party, it was widely reported that one of the Senators with whom she was involved was a prominent Republican. But the Chicago Tribune's sensational report last week that she had tapes of her liaisons with 13 Congressmen and two Senators-recorded on a voice-activated machine secreted under her well-used bed-was incorrect...
...asking them, 'Honey, do you remember that night when ... ?'" Whatever they said went into her recorders. It's enough to give a public servant cardiac arrest." It was also enough to prompt a number of legislators to deny having ever had anything to do with Ray. "Nonsense, sheer and utter nonsense," said Hubert Humphrey to rumors linking...
...Ray was enjoying her long-sought celebrity. She had come a long way from Marshall, N.C., where her mother still lives in a rickety trailer. No longer was she merely the Southern girl who had lost the Miss Asheville contest, then got her nose bobbed and failed to make an acting career in Hollywood. Last week the whir of TV cameras and the pop of flashbulbs echoed in her tacky apartment in Arlington, Va. She was not the second Marilyn Monroe that she had yearned to become, but at least she was guided and comforted by her agent, her psychiatrist...
...Still, Ray was around Capitol Hill enough to meet many powerful men. Congressman Barry Goldwater Jr. said that he had put her in touch with friends in show business to try to aid her acting career. Senator Hubert Humphrey said that she brought constituents around to the Senate floor to meet...