1973 Margarita Moran PHILIPPINES

Athens, Greece

1st runner-up      Amanda Jones   USA 2nd runner-up     Aina Walle   NORWAY 3rd runner-up     Maria Martin Madrigal   SPAIN 4th runner-up     Limor Schreibman   ISRAEL SEMI-FINALISTS Susana Romero   ARGENTINA Sandra Mara Ferreira   BRAZIL Ana Lucia Agudelo Correa   COLOMBIA Sicta Vana Papadaki   GREECE Farzana Habib   INDIA Miyoko Sometani   JAPAN Marcelle Herro   LEBANON

Miss Universe 1973 Margarita Moran, the pageant's second winner from the Philippines, admitted she didn't even want to enter Miss Philippines, much less Miss Universe. She was encouraged by her friends to do so and look where that got her. In one of her interviews, she had praised Mr. Richard Nixon, ' then US president, and said that he was the greatest man on Earth. She promptly received a letter from the president thanking her for her "thoughtful comment on my efforts to bring peace in the world." This year, the sound-proof booth used for the final round of interviews disappears for the next decade.

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