1968 Martha Vasconcellos BRAZIL

Miami Beach, Florida USA

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.

Martha's official photograph as Miss Universe 1968

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