Martha Vasconcellos Miss Universe 1968

 

Martha Vasconcellos (born Martha Maria Cordeiro Vasconcellos, c. 1948), is a Brazilian who became that country's second Miss Universe winner, after Ieda Maria Vargas first achieved the feat in 1963. She also became the fifth Latin American to win the title, after Peru's Gladys Zender in 1957, Colombia's Luz Marina Zuluaga in 1958 and Argentina's Norma Nolan in 1962. Vasconcellos is a native of the state of Bahia.

1st runner-up Anne Marie Braafheid CURACAO
2nd runner-up Leena Marketa Brusiin FINLAND
3rd runner-up Peggy Kopp Arenas VENEZUELA
4th runner-up Dorothy Ansett USA

SEMI-FINALISTS
Nancy Wilson CANADA
Danae Montserrat Sala Sarradell CHILE
Jennifer Lowe Summers ENGLAND
Elizabeth Cadren FRANCE
Miranta Zafiropoulou GREECE
Miriam Fridman ISRAEL
Tone Knaran NORWAY
Anne Marie Hellqvist SWEDEN
Apantree Prayutsenee THAILAND
Daliborka Stojsic YUGOSLAVIA

Martha Vasconcellos is Brazil's second Miss Universe. This was another homesick winner.The morning after winning the title, Martha Vasconcellos cried for her family and boyfriend. She had been supposedly engaged with her boyfriend since she was 12 and she had missed him so much While other contestants protested against being chaperoned all the time, Ireland's Tiffany Scales said she understood:
“Can you imagine the chaos if you had 66 beauty queens running around Miami getting plastered and picking up men?” Runner-up Anne Marie Braafheid of Curacao makes history as the highest placing black delegate as of 1968 in Miss Universe history.

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Margareta Arvidsson Miss Universe 1966

 

Margareta Arvidsson was 18 years old when she was crowned as the 1966 Miss Universe. She is the second Swedish beauty to hold the crown, 11 years after Hillevi Rombin.

1st runner-up Charlotta Ostring FINLAND
2nd runner-up Cheranand Savetanand
THAILAND
3rd runner-up Yasmin Daji INDIA
4th runner-up Aviva Israeli ISRAEL

SEMI-FINALISTS
Edna Margarita Rudd Lucena COLOMBIA
Gitte Fleinert DENMARK
Janice Carol Whiteman ENGLAND
Marion Heinrich GERMANY
Marge Domen HOLLAND
Siri Gro Nilsson NORWAY
Madeline Hartog Bel PERU
Ma.Clarinda Garces Soriano PHILIPPINES
Paquita Torres Perez SPAIN
Maria Judith Remenyi USA

Margarita was homesick. Minutes after Miss Sweden, Margarita Arvidsson, was crowned Miss Universe, she told the newsmen on hand that she wanted "to go home.I can never be myself or be what I want to be as Miss Universe," she said. "I can’t go nowhere without a chaperone," she cried. And controversy was still alive and well in the pageant. Five South American contestants, Misses Argentina, Ecuador, Paraguay, Venezuela and Brazil complained that they "are the nothings of the contest" and claimed that European girls got preferential treatment wherever they went. Peru's Madeline Hartog Bel would go on to win the 1967 Miss World title.

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Apasra Hongsakula Miss Universe 1965

 

Apasra Hongsakula (born in 1947 in Bangkok, Thailand; Thai: อาภัสรา หงสกุล, pronounced [āːpʰátrāː hǒŋsàkūn]) is a Thai beauty queen who has held the title Miss Universe 1965. She is the daughter of Group Captain "Perm" and Kayoon Hongsakula. She was the first woman from Thailand to win the Miss Universe crown.

 

1st runner-up Virpi Meittinen FINLAND
2nd runner-up Sue Ann Downey USA
3rd runner-up Ingrid Norman SWEDEN
4th runner-up Anja Schuit HOLLAND

SEMI-FINALISTS

Pauline Verey AUSTRALIA
Maria Raquel Helena de Andrade BRAZIL
Carol Ann Tidey CANADA
Maria Victoria Ocampo Gomez COLOMBIA
Jeanette Christjansen DENMARK
Aspa Theologitou GREECE
Aliza Panfil Sedeh ISRAEL
Freida Holler Figallo PERU
Louise Vail Aurielo PHILIPPINES
Veronika Edelgarda Hilda Prigge S. AFRICA

Apasra Hongsakula was the first Thai and second Asian woman to win the prestigious Miss Universe title. She was the shortest at 5'4" and the only brunette among the five finalists at the Miami pageant. She spoke no English but captivated the judges nonetheless with her charm, poise and regal bearing. Apasra later married a first cousin of Queen Sirikit, and like the Royal Thai family, is still a much revered social figure in her country. This year, the semi-finalists were announced during pageant night,
not one day before as done in previous pageants

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Kiriaki Corinna Tsopei Miss Universe 1964

 
Kiriaki "Corinna" Tsopei (Greek: Κυριακή Κορίνα Τσοπέη; born June 21, 1944) is a beauty pageant winner and actress. In 1964, Tsopei became the first Greek winner of the Miss Universe pageant.


runner-up Brenda Blackler ENGLAND
2nd runner-up Ronit Rinat ISRAEL
3rd runner-up Siv Marta Aberg SWEDEN
4th runner-up Lana Yi Yu REP.OF CHINA

SEMI-FINALISTS
Maria Amelia Ramirez ARGENTINA
Olga Monica Carpio Oropeza BOLIVIA
Angela Teresa Pereira de Vasconcellos BRAZIL
Sirpa Wallenius FINLAND
Edith Noel FRANCE
Emanuela Stramana ITALY
Jorunn Nystedt Barun NORWAY
Miriam Riart Brugada PARAGUAY
Bobbi Johnson USA
Mercedes Revenga de la Rosa VENEZUELA


Miss Universe 1964 Corinne Tsopei was an incessant eater and it was claimed that she ate potatoes three times a day. Her appetite a constant topic of conversation. Again, controversy colored the pageant. Edna Park, Nigeria's first delegate to Miss Universe, had written in her diary that she entered the contest to "win the crown." She collapsed after not hearing her name in the semi-finalists roster. Scotland's Doreen Swan walked out of the contest, charging that pageant rules and activities made her feel like she was in prison" It was said that the real root of the problem was that Doreen wished to go home to her boyfriend and tie the knot. It was during this pageant that the 15 semi-finalists were cut to 10. Selengkapnya...