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...copious responsibilities too, said the reigning Miss Freetown, Mass., who competed in the 60th Anniversary Miss Massachusetts Pageant on June...
...pageant days of when you rode in the back of a limousine are over," Lawless said. "It's now much more a commitment to public service and community activities...
Lawless, who is a resident of Flushing, N.Y., said she'll spend much of the summer traveling back to the Bay State for public appearances and mentoring sessions with youth. She was able to compete in the Massachusetts competitions because Freetown's pageant is open to out-of-state students...
According to Lawless's mother, pageant rules forbid her daughter from making more than one phone call a day in the week before competition. Contestants live in an undisclosed location during the week before the pageant...
...delicate question of motherhood bedeviled last week's Miss Universe Pageant. First, Miss Guam, Trisha Heflin, was sent home because of her indelicate condition. Though her representative denied it, pageant officials contended Heflin was pregnant, a state outlawed in competition. The issue arose again when the night's three remaining contestants were asked whether Miss Universe should step down if she became pregnant during her reign. After Miss Spain and Miss Philippines, a crowd favorite who all but had the crown bobby-pinned to her head, fumbled, Miss Botswana stepped in. MPULE KWELAGOBE, her country's first-ever entrant, walked...