1978 Margaret Gardiner SOUTH AFRICA

Acapulco, Mexico

1st runner-up     Judi Andersen   USA 2nd runner-up     Guillermina Ruiz Domenech SPAIN 3rd runner-up     Shirly Saenz   COLOMBIA 4th runner-up     Cecilia Catharina Rhodes SWEDEN SEMI-FINALISTS Françoise Moens   BELGIUM Marianne Muller Prieto   CHILE Karen Ingrid Gustafsson   HOLLAND Lorraine Bernadette Enriquez   IRELAND Dorith Jellinek   ISRAEL Alba Margarita Cervera Lavat   MEXICO Olga Roxana Zumaran Burga   PERU

In 1978, for the first time in the history of any televised pageant, the judges' composite scores for each semifinalist were shown on the screen! Using the latest in computer technology  the judges punched in their scores to a computer terminal. The score was then shown for each contestant in each category save for the final vote. It was early on in the 1978 pageant that Bob Barker informed us that this was the first time that the onstage interview of the 12 semifinalists would be scored and that we would see the score.

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