Miss America 1974

Miss America 1974
Date	September 8, 1973
Presenters	Bert Parks
Venue	Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Broadcaster	NBC
Winner	Rebecca Ann King; Colorado

Miss America 1974, the 47th Miss America pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 8, 1973, and broadcast on NBC.

The winner was Rebecca Ann King, whose daughter Diana Dreman would become Miss Colorado and a contender for Miss America 2012, the first daughter of a victorious Miss America to compete in the pageant.

Suzanne Plummer, second runner-up, is known today as Sue Lowden, who became chairperson of the Republican Party in Nevada and a 2010 U.S. Senate candidate there. Another contestant, Michelle Marshall of Missouri, is now the political analyst and blogger Taylor Marsh.

Results

Placements

Final results	Contestant
Miss America 1974	Colorado - Rebecca Ann King
1st runner-up	Wisconsin - Judy Hieke
2nd runner-up	New Jersey - Suzanne Plummer
3rd runner-up	Louisiana - Debbie Ward
4th runner-up	Pennsylvania - Tina Louise Thomas
Top 10	California - Susan Shipley Illinois - Colleen Metternich Oklahoma - Andrea Hanson Texas - Judy Mallett Washington - Leslie Ann Mays

Awards

Preliminary awards

Awards	Contestant
Lifestyle and Fitness	New Jersey - Suzanne Plummer Washington - Leslie Ann Mays Wisconsin - Judy Hieke
Talent	Illinois - Colleen Metternich Louisiana - Debbie Ward Pennsylvania - Tina Louise Thomas

Other awards

Awards	Contestant
Non-finalist Talent	Florida - Ellen Rowena Meade Massachusetts - Rena Diane Walmsley Montana - Debbie Reber New Hampshire - Michelle Annette Cote Ohio - Cheryl Ann Yourkvitch Utah - Brenda Richardson Vermont - Joylynn McCraw
Miss Congeniality	Hawaii - Kanoelehua Kaumeheiwa
Neat as a Pin	Colorado – Rebecca Ann King (tie) Nevada – Echo Layne Ross (tie)

Judges

gollark: Yes.

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gollark: Okay, I managed to compress the WHYJIT compiler into a single discord message.

gollark: ```pythonimport argparse,subprocess,random,stringparser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Compile a WHY program using WHYJIT.")parser.add_argument("input",help="File containing WHY source code")parser.add_argument("-o","--output",help="Filename of the output executable to make",default="./a.why")parser.add_argument("-O","--optimize",help="Optimization level",type=int,default="0")#parser.add_argument("-d","--drawkcab",help=".sdrawkcab elif ecruos YHW eht ssecorP")args = parser.parse_args()def randomword(length): letters = string.ascii_lowercase return ''.join(random.choice(letters) for i in range(length))def which(program): proc = subprocess.run(["which",program],stdout=subprocess.PIPE) if proc.returncode == 0: return proc.stdout.replace(b"\n",b"") else: return Nonedef find_C_compiler(): compilers = ["gcc","clang","tcc","cc"] for compiler in compilers: path = which(compiler) if path != None: return pathdef build_output(code,max): #if args.drawkcab: code = code[::-1] C_code = f"""#define QUITELONG long long intconst QUITELONG max = {max};int main() {{ volatile QUITELONG i = 0; // disable some "optimizations" that RUIN OUR BEAUTIFUL CODE! while (i < max) {{ i++; }} {code}}} """ heredoc = randomword(100) devnull = "2>/dev/null" shell_script = f"""#!/bin/shTMP1=/tmp/ignore-meTMP2=/tmp/ignore-me-tooTMP3=/tmp/dont-look-here cat << {heredoc} > $TMP1{C_code}{heredoc}sed -e '1,/^exit \$?$/d' "$0" > $TMP3chmod +x $TMP3$TMP3 -x c -o $TMP2 $TMP1chmod +x $TMP2$TMP2exit $?""".encode("utf-8") with open(find_C_compiler(),"rb") as f: return shell_script + f.read()with open(args.input,"r") as f: contents = f.read() looplen = max(1000,(2 ** -args.optimize) * 1000000000) code = build_output( contents, looplen ) with open(args.output,"wb") as out: out.write(code)```

gollark: (and so, code gold was invented)

External links

Miss America official website

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