Word: contest
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Shrieking the Japanese equivalent of "Oh, my gosh!" Tokyo Fashion Model Akiko Kojima. 22, exuded sheer joy at the happy news. She was the new Miss Universe, the first Asian ever to take the crown in the international beauty contest, held last week for the eighth year in Long Beach, Calif. Burbled Akiko over her fast-breaking curves (37-23-38): "I am floating on a cloud and living a dream!" Overwhelmed by new-found fondness for the U.S., she also announced that she wants to live in the U.S. eventually, raise a family, be "a lovely wife...
...signed author of these lines is neither a theologian nor a churchman, but 21-year-old Brunette Sue Ingersoll, a hairdresser and New Mexico's Miss Universe entrant, who defied her archbishop by insisting that she would take part in the contest despite his ban (TIME, July 20-27). With outside help-including at least one layman trained in theology-Contestant Ingersoll last week churned out statements to document her own vision of the matter. The real issue, said Sue, is what happens when a Roman Catholic finds the charismatic (supernaturally graced) side of the church at odds with...
...Albuquerque's Archbishop Edwin Vincent Byrne, she was praying for him and criticized him only "with deep respect, as one friend would another." But just before the Miss Universe contest, Sue Ingersoll decided to withdraw after all-not, she insisted, because she was giving in to the archbishop, but only because contest officials had held her "virtually a prisoner." Winner of the contest at Long Beach, Calif.: Japan's Akiko Kojima, a fashion model (see PEOPLE) who comes from a Shinto family but says she has no religion herself...
...other. There are still gold-hatted, high-bouncing young men who know their way to the washroom in the Union Club. In his resplendently gold-jacketed first novel, Yaleman Goodman, 23, lists a few undergraduate acolytes who keep the torch flaming: "Lawlor Reck, who had won the Charleston contest at the Everglades Club in Florida for six years running . . . one of the Du Pont boys . . . Lou Bond, who was from San Francisco and had no toes...
Despite all this, one knowledgeable U.S. diplomat admits that "the U.S. would never win in any popularity contest in Libya." Like all newly independent nations, Libya is extremely sensitive about its dependence. "We advise the American people to study the psychology of the Libyans," warned the newspaper At-Talia recently. "Any assistance given at the expense of our dignity and pride will be regarded as an offense and not a help...