Miss Universe
Born to a Swiss father and a Peruvian mother, she obtained the title of Miss Universe 1957 in Long Beach, California, United States.
After being crowned, it was revealed that she was only 18 years old, a few months under the contest's minimum age requirement. Pageant officials decided that she could keep the crown, after they were told she was considered to be 18 in Peru. That same year, Miss USA, Mary Leona Gage, was stripped of her title and disqualified from the semifinals of the Miss Universe pageant after it was revealed she was a married mother of two children. Miss Argentina, Mónica Lamas, replaced her as one of the 15 semifinalists.
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Famous quotes containing the word universe:
“There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees. Our globe seen by God is a transparent law, not a mass of facts. The law dissolves the fact and holds it fluid.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)