That many are essential, for the various pageant events: cocktail parties, solemn wreath-layings, tours of poor neighborhoods, prayer services.
At a Monday news conference, four 2018 Mrs. America contestants accused David Marmel, the pageant's executive director, of uttering the offensive remarks during a pre-pageant event in Las Vegas last year.
Marmel told NBC News on Monday that he did have a conversation with the contestants about race during the pre-pageant event last year but that his statements had been "wrongly characterized".
Saturday night's game on Fox had three times as many viewers as the next-closest network option, the Miss America Pageant, an event that inflicts a different kind of head trauma on its participants.
Today she will compete for the title of "Super Queen" in India's first transgender beauty pageant; an event seen by some as a sign that the marginalised "third gender" group – eunuchs, transsexuals and transvestites – is finally being welcomed into mainstream society.
In 1966 the community worker Rhaune Laslett invited Henderson to bring a three-piece steel band to play for the first Notting Hill fayre and pageant, an event she had organised in conjunction with the London Free School and the photographer, writer and activist John "Hoppy" Hopkins.
Sathian questioned the overall significance of Davuluri's win in the pageant, an event that's "a problematic institution on gender terms," and cited other ways in which South Asian Americans are gaining prominence in other areas.
Openly gay Bravo honcho Andy Cohen took a stance against Russia's "discriminatory policies" last month when he declined his usual post as Miss Universe pageant host because the event is set to take place in Russia this year.
In addition to the Thames River pageant a series of events on land will celebrate the Queen's Jubilee.
So who determines who receives the crown and serves as a spokesperson for the pageant at events in 2012?
