Marisol Malaret Miss Universe 1970

 

Marisol Malaret Contreras (born on October 13, 1949 in Utuado, Puerto Rico) was the very first Puerto Rican woman to be crowned Miss Universe.

1st runner-up Debbie Shelton USA
2nd runner-up Joan Zealand AUSTRALIA
3rd runner-up Jun Shimada JAPAN
4th runner-up Beatriz Gros ARGENTINA


SEMI-FINALISTS
Eliane Fialho Thompson BRAZIL
Kristina Hanazalova CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Angelique Bourlessa GREECE
Hilary Ann Best GUAM
Mabel Hawkett HONG KONG
Anna Zamboni ITALY
Josephine Lena Wong Jaw Leng MALAYSIA
Britt-Inger Johansson SWEDEN
Diane Jane Roth SWITZERLAND
Bella Mercedes La Rosa de la Rosa VENEZUELA

Miami Beach revelled at the 64 contestants gracing the pageant that year, the most number in the history of the pageant to date. On the day of Miss Universe 1970's homecoming, Puerto Rico's governor, Luis A. Ferre, proclaimed a half-holiday for all government workers. At her first press conference at Miss Universe headquarters in New York, defined beauty: "There are two kinds of beauty - inside and outside. A woman can be beautiful on the outside with nothing else, but a woman with beauty on the inside - that's perfect." When asked to compare older men and younger men, Marisol coyly replied, "It depends on what kind you prefer, and for what."

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Gloria Diaz Miss Universe 1969

 

Gloria Maria Aspillera Diaz was born in Aringay, La Union Philippines. Often referred to as one of the Diaz clan in newspapers, Diaz was one of 12 children. One of her sisters, Rio Diaz-Cojuangco, was also a Filipino actress and beauty titlist, who died after a six year battle with colon cancer.

 
1st runner-up Harriet Eriksson FINLAND
2nd runner-up Joanne Barrett AUSTRALIA
3rd runner-up Chava Levy ISRAEL
4th runner-up Kikuyo Ohsuka JAPAN

SEMI-FINALISTS
Eva von Reuber-Staier AUSTRIA
Vera Lucia Fischer BRAZIL
Monica Larson Teuber CHILE
Margarita Ma.Reyes Zawadsky COLOMBIA
Patricia Ingrid Walker NORWAY
Maria Julia Mantilla Mayer PERU
Brigitta Lindloff SWEDEN
Patrice Sollner SWITZERLAND
Wendy Jane Dascomb USA
Natasa Kosir YUGOSLAVIA

Gloria Diaz's ambition in life was to make as many friends as possible, and joining Miss Universe made her able to meet people, and foster better relationships with the delegates from other nations. Austria's Eva von Rueber-Staier, a semi-finalist, created a stir with her political judgment. She has called Mao Tse-tung the greatest historical figure in the world in her written interview quiestionnare. Eva would compete in Miss World that same year and win the title. This year, pageant organizers introduced the sound-proof booth and the final question for the 5 finalists Selengkapnya...

Sylvia Louise Hitchcock Miss Universe 1967

 

Sylvia Louise Hitchcock-Carson (born January 31, 1946) is a pageant titleholder who held the Miss USA 1967 and Miss Universe 1967 titles.

1st runner-up Mariela Perez Branger VENEZUELA
2nd runner-up Jennifer Lewis ENGLAND
3rd runner-up Ritva Helena Lehto FINLAND
4th runner-up Batya Kabiri ISRAEL

SEMI-FINALISTS
Carmen Silvia de Barros Ramasco BRAZIL
Margrethe Rhein Knudsen DENMARK
Elia Kalogeraki GREECE
Irene van Campenhout HOLLAND
Laura Arminda da Costa Roque HONG KONG
Patricia Armstrong IRELAND
Paoli Rossi ITALY
Paquita Delgado Sanchez SPAIN
Eva-Lisa Svensson SWEDEN
Denise Elizabeth Page WALES

Sylvia Louise Hitchcock who hails from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is the 4th American to win Miss UniversePageant. During this year, fficials advised the panel of judges that “a beauty today must not only have a beautiful face, in perfect contour, but her torso must be be well-formed with the bustline not accentuated, and the back lines of the shoulder almost flat...” Pageant officials allowed contestants to wear false hairpieces and falls for the first time. Padded bras were still banned, though.

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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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