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Front  Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana & Greece

Middle  Guyana, Holland, Honduras, Ireland, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand & Nigeria

Back  Norway, Panama, Peru, Portugal, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, U.S.A., Venezuela & Yugoslavia

Absent  Argentina, Brazil, Ceylon, Dominican Republic, Gambia, Gibraltar, Iceland, Italy, Kenya & Philippines

 


Ecuador, Mexico, Venezuela, Peru, Chile, Paraguay & Honduras

Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana & Nigeria

U.S.A., France, South Africa & United Kingdom

 

Miss World 1967
- an amalgam of news reports -


Madeline Hartog-Bel, the 21-year-old daughter of a Peruvian cattle rancher, won the Miss World contest.  Judges handed her a check for $7,000, a big trophy and carte blanche to travel far and wide as “the most beautiful woman in the world.”

Miss Peru was chosen from a field of 54 candidates in the 17th annual contest, a pageant that draws girls from almost every part of the globe

Her vital statistics caught the eyes of the judges.  She stands 5-6, measures 35-23-35, has raven-black hair and works as a photographer’s model.  One of her five sisters was named “The Perfect Secretary of Peru” last year.

She fainted seconds before coming on stage to be crowned Miss World 1967 and had to be revived with smelling salts.

Miss Peru confounded British bookies by leading a Latin American sweep of the top three places in the beauty contest.  The bookmakers favoured European and South African beauties and will have to pay 10-1 odds for guessing wrong.

Miss Argentina, 20-year-old law student Maria Sabaliauskas, came second.

Third was Miss Guyana, stenographer Shakira Baksh, 20, who last week confidently predicted she would get a place in the contest.  A linguist, she wants to be an international interpreter.

The strain of the contest was apparently too much for Miss Hartog-Bel.  She was on the verge of tears at the crowning ceremony.  She shook almost uncontrollably as judges placed the crown on her head and draped the cape of her title over her shoulders.

An estimated 25 million viewers - half of Britain’s population - saw her triumph on television.

Miss Guyana and Miss Argentina, almost in tears, fled from the stage immediately the crowning was over.

All Miss Hartog-Bel wanted after her victory was to make a telephone call to her family in Peru.  But it took hours to get her request as contest officials rushed her from one news to another and finally to the Miss World victory celebration hall.

She could think of nothing but home, even after a newsman placed the call and she talked to her family.

Asked if she wanted to entertain American troops  in Vietnam at Christmas with Bob Hope, she understood only Christmas and bubbled:

 “Yes, yes, I will spend Christmas with my mother and father.”

The $7,000 prize money, she said, would be sent home to her parents except for enough to “buy back my car.”  She sold the auto to pay for her trip to the contest.

Interviewed on nation-wide television later Miss Hartog-Bel said she couldn’t believe she had won the world-wide contest when she heard the result.

The Spanish-speaking beauty, who lives in Paris, said through an interpreter “goodnight to all England.”

‘I feel more English than ever because I too have English ancestors.”

Big surprise of the contest was the elimination of strongly favoured South African secretary Disa Duivenstein in the second eliminating round.

Miss Israel, 22-year-old Dalia Regev, took fourth place and Miss United Kingdom, Jennifer Lewis, 20, was fifth.


Czechoslovakia

Ecuador, New Zealand & South Africa

Japan

Top 15
U.S.A., United Kingdom, Sweden, South Africa, Peru, Italy, Israel, Guyana, Ghana, Germany, France, Czechoslovakia, Chile, Canada & Argentina

 


Top 7
Argentina, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Guyana, Israel, Peru & United Kingdom

 

MISS WORLD 1967

1967 November 16
London, England
55 entries

Results
1  Peru  Madeleine Hartog-Bel Houghton (SF Universe '66)
2  Argentina  Maria del Carmen Sabaliuskas
3  Guyana  Shakira Baksh
4  Israel  Dalia Regev
5  United Kingdom  Jennifer Lynn Lewis (2nd RU Universe-England '67 (2nd), Europe-England '67)

Finalists
6  Czechoslovakia  Alzbeta Strkulova (Europe '68)
7  Germany  Ruth Köcher  

Semi-finalists
Canada  Donna Marie Barker (Universe '67, Queen of the Pacific '68)
Chile  Margarita Téllez
France  Carole Noe
Ghana  Araba Martha Vroon
Italy  Tamara Barone
South Africa  Disa Duivestein
Sweden  Eva Englander  (3rd RU Scandinavia '68)
U.S.A.  Pamela Valari Pall

Remainder
Australia  Judy Lockey
Austria  Christl Bartu (Universe '67)
Belgium  Mauricette Sironval (Europe '67, Universe '67)
Brazil  Wilza de Oliveira Rainato
Ceylon  Therese Fernando
Costa Rica  Marjorie Furniss Pacheco
Cyprus  Lalla Michaelides
Denmark  Sonja Jensen  (Scandinavia '68)
Dominican Republic  Margarita Rosa Rueckschnat Schott  (Sugar Cane '67)
Ecuador  Laura "Laurita" Elena Baquero Palacios (International '67, Sugar Cane '67)
Finland  Hedy Rännäri
Gambia  Janie Jack
Gibraltar  Laura Bassadone
Greece  Mimika Niavi
Holland  Monica van Beelen
Honduras  Alba Maria Bobadilla
Iceland  Hrefna Wigelund Steinthorsdóttir (Scandinavia '69)
Ireland  Gemma McNabb (Europe '67)
Jamaica  Laurel Williams
Japan  Chikako Sotoyama
Kenya  Zipporah Mbugua
Korea  Chung Young-hwa
Lebanon  Sonia Faris (Universe '68)
Luxembourg  Marie-Josée Mathgen (Universe '67, Europe '67)
Malta  Mary Mifsud
Mexico  Maria-Cristina Ortal (Queen of the Pacific '69)
Morocco  Naïma Benjelloun
New Zealand  Pamela McLeod (Universe '67)
Nigeria  Roseline Balogun
Norway  Vigdis Sollie  (Scandinavia '68)
Panama  Carlota Lozano  (4th RU Mrs World '
86)
Philippines  Margarita "Maita" Favis Gomez
Portugal  Teresa Amaro
Switzerland  Edith Fraefel
Tanzania  Theresa Shayo
Tunisia  Rekeja Dekhil (Universe '68, International '69, Maja '70)
Turkey  Nese Yazicigil
Uganda  Rosemary Salmon
Venezuela  Irene Böttger Herrera
Yugoslavia  Aleksandra Mandic

Replaced
France  Jeanne Beck


Crowning by Miss World 1966, Reita Faria of India

 

Israel (3rd RU, right) smiles as Guyana (left) and Argentina tend to the new Miss World after she was overcome by emotion

United Kingdom (4th RU) adjusts her crown as Miss World regains her composure

Guyana (2nd RU), Peru (winner) & Argentina (1st RU)