Results

1  JAPAN  Akiko Kojima

2  NORWAY  Jorunn Kristjansen

3  USA  Terry Lynn Huntingdon

4  ENGLAND  Pamela Anne Searle

5  BRAZIL  Vera Regina Ribeiro

Top 15

BELGIUM  Hélène Savigny

COLOMBIA  Olga Beatriz Pumarejo Korkor

FRANCE  Françoise St-Laurent

GERMANY  Carmela Künzel

GREECE  Zoitsa "Zoe" Kouroukli

ICELAND  Sigridur Thorvaldsdóttir

ISRAEL  Rina Issacov

KOREA  Hyun-joo Oh 

POLAND  Zuzanna Cembrowska

SWEDEN  Marie Louise Ekström

Awards

Miss Friendship  THAILAND

Miss Photogenic  ENGLAND

Most Popular Girl  KOREA

Remainder

ARGENTINA  Liana Cortijo

AUSTRIA  Christine Spatzier (winner Europe '59)

BOLIVIA  Corina Taborga

BURMA  Than Than Aye

CANADA  Eileen Butter

COSTA RICA  Ziane "Sonia" Monturiol Varand

CUBA  Irma Buesa Mas

DENMARK  Lisa Stolberg

ECUADOR  Carlota Elena Ayala Arellano

GUATEMALA  Rogelia Cruz Martínez

HAWAII  Patricia F. Visser

HOLLAND  Peggy Erwich

ITALY  Maria Grazia Buccella

LUXEMBOURG  Josée Pundel (Europe '59, World '59)

MEXICO  Mirna García Dávila

PERU  Guadalupe Mariátegui Hawkins

THAILAND  Sondi Sodsai Vanijvadhana

TURKEY  Ezel Olcay (Europe '58)

URUGUAY  Claudia Bernat

NO SHOWS:

UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC (SYRIA)  Nawal Ramli (expected but never arrived)

FINLAND  Tarja Anita Nurmi

MARTINIQUE  Marie Jose Azur

MOROCCO  Raymonde Valle

NICARAGUA  Marcia Caldera

PARAGUAY  Elvira Dos Santos Encina

PHILIPPINES  Christina Matias

SCOTLAND  Alice Elizabeth Jones

SURINAME  Alita Visser

VENEZUELA  Berta Gisela Dávila  (1st RU Miss Venezuela '57. She was appointed but she refused to compete)

WEST INDIES  Valerie Hardie

REPLACED:

UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC (SYRIA)  Aida Kadamani

DEBUTS: Bolivia, Burma, Luxembourg

WITHDRAWALS:  Alaska, Australia, British Guiana, Chile, Paraguay, Singapore, Suriname, Venezuela, West Indies

RETURNS:  Austria, Iceland, Thailand, Turkey

JUDGES:

1- Vincent Trotta - Dean of America's beauty judges and formerly art director of Paramount Pictures.

2- Maxwell Arnow - Talent executive for Columbia Pictures.

3- Joseph Ruttenberg - Cinematographer.

4- Ghislaine Rendon de Amador - Ecuadorian sculptor artist.

5- Claude Berr - Official from the Miss Europe Contest.

6- Paul Iselin Wellman - American journalist and novel writer.

7- Christy Fox - Columnist of Los Angeles Times.

8- Palmi Ingvarsson - Art critic from Iceland.

9- James H. Noguer - Foreign language professor at Long Beach State College.