Word: diadem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Albert A. Marks Jr., 71, the nonsalaried chairman of the Miss America Pageant, who suggested on behalf of the pageant that Williams toss in the diadem. Marks at that time was one of the handful of people who had actually seen the pictures, and scrambling for the high road, kept getting the ground cut out from under him by indignant interviewers and splenetic editorialists who had not. He was a prig; his contest was an exercise in hypocrisy ... What about that swimsuit competition, huh? According to Marks, when Williams first told him about the pictures in a tearful meeting...