Article: No Miss Nepal for this year's world beauty contests.

Article: Vietnam beckons to beauty contests.
Vietnamese News Agency;  July 1, 2008 ;     376 words ... ... Hoa province, where 80 beauties from around the world are competing for the Miss Universal 2008 title, will host the Miss World beauty contest in 2010. Chairwoman of the Miss World Organisation Julia Morlay met with the leaders of the province on June 30 ...

Article: Father's murder inspires Linford niece to 2012 & Miss ...
The Mirror (London, England);  May 20, 2009 ;     598 words ... ... spends days training to fulfil her ambition of competing in the 2012 London Games, she still has the energy to enter beauty contests at night - and has already been crowned Miss London City. Now 5ft 10in Rachel goes on to the Miss England competition ...

Article: Beauty Contests
Dictionary of American History;      450 words ...BEAUTY CONTESTS BEAUTY CONTESTS evolved from early-twentieth-century bathing-beauty contests, where women participated in swimsuit competitions in beach resort cities. The Miss America pageant, which became the standard for American beauty ...

Article: PRETTY BABIES: CHILD BEAUTY CONTESTS DRAW ...
The Virginian Pilot;  January 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... in the pageant. Suddenly, child beauty contests - with their miniature tiaras and ... repeatedly to the subject of child beauty contests. Not because there's a suspicion that beauty contests contributed to her death but because ...

Encyclopedia entry: beauty contests
The Oxford Companion to the Body;      700+ words ...beauty contests In its modern form, the beauty ... Previously treated with suspicion, beauty contests proliferated in the 1950s, with ... and the winner the community, beauty contests are often embedded in negotiations ...

Article: Beauty contests - the stakes are big.
U.S. News & World Report;  August 6, 1984 ;     700+ words ...Are the thousands of beauty contests held in the U.S. each year ... her with a bouquet of roses. Beauty contests range from such extravaganzas ... variety of backgrounds. Will beauty contests suffer lasting damage from this ...

Article: Miss World and the Marxists.(opposition to beauty ...
The Economist (US);  September 28, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... in Bangalore in November. They say beauty contests turn women into commodities. One ... enough, say the protesters. Not that beauty contests are entirely new to India: Indians ... uncompromisingly prudish rather than prurient. Beauty contests such as the one for Miss India are ...