People: Jan. 1, 1965

Her qualifications for the secretarial job on the Washington staff of Maryland's Senator-elect Joseph Tydings, 36, were pretty impressive. She was an ultraloyal Democrat who had worked seven days a week for Tydings during the election campaign, could type 90 words a minute, take dictation at the stopwatch speed of 100 words per, and seemed a cinch for the job. But a girl can't have everything. It came out that leggy, blonde Mary Ellen Terziu, 23, also moonlighted her nights away as a bunny at the Baltimore Playboy Club. Up went the chances of...

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