1967 Sylvia Louise Hitchcock USA

Miami Beach, Florida USA

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 Hitchcock and her Miss USA court

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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