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Fifty years ago, the swimsuit-wearing beauties of the MissAmerica pageant were confrontedwith a spectacle on the AtlanticCity boardwalk: 100 feministsthrowing bras, girdles, curlingirons, false eyelashes and other“instruments of female torture”into a trash can labeled “Free-dom.”

The protesters had planned toset the can on fire but could not getthe right permits — so, alas, nobras were burned that summerday, though it is the origin of theterm “bra burning.” They werecondemning what even then theysaw as an antiquated institution,which had mostly male judgesscrutinize women’s bodies, wom-en of color at one point not allowedto compete, corporations profitingon the event, and three in four

American households watching itall happen on television.

“Everybody tuned into MissAmerica back then — this was likethe Oscars,” said the author AlixKates Shulman, 85, one of the or-ganizers of that 1968 protest.

Fifty years later, it appears that#MeToo has done what a protestcould not: eradicate one of themost derided aspects of the com-petition, the swimsuit.

The Miss America Organization

— whose chief executive resignedin December over lewd emailsand whose new chairwoman,Gretchen Carlson, once sued FoxNews for sexual harassment — onTuesday announced it wouldscrap both the swimsuit andevening gown portion of the com-petition, replacing them with “alive interactive session with thejudges” in which a contestant“will highlight her achievements

Miss America Scraps Swimsuits, Making Strides to Reshape ImageBy JESSICA BENNETT

Gretchen Carlson, the chairwoman of Miss America, said she hoped “to make the event more inclusive.” Above, a contest in 1981.SARA KRULWICH/THE NEW YORK TIMES

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After canceling a visit by the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles, President Trump held a patriotic-themed event. Page A15.Saluting America’s Icons, Minus the Eagles

Buying a Kate Spade handbagwas a coming-of-age ritual for ageneration of American women.The designer created an acces-sories empire that helped definethe look of an era. The purses shemade became a status symbol anda token of adulthood.

Ms. Spade, who was found deadTuesday in what police character-ized as a suicide by hanging,worked as an editor before ma-king the leap to designing, con-structing her first sketches frompaper and Scotch tape. She wouldcome to attach her name to abounty of products, and ideas:home goods and china and towels

and so much else, all of it poisedatop the thin line between accessi-bility and luxury.

One of the first of a wave ofAmerican women contemporarydesigners who emerged in the1990s, she built a brand on the ap-peal of clothes and accessoriesthat made shoppers smile. Sheembodied her own aesthetic, withher proto-1960s bouffant, nerdglasses and playful grin. Beneaththat image was a business mindthat understood the opportunitiesin building a lifestyle brand, al-most before the term existed.

Her name became a shorthandfor the cute, clever bags that werean instant hit with cosmopolitanwomen in the early stages of their

Kate Spade, a Designer of BagsWith ’90s Flair, Is Found DeadThis article is by Jonah Engel

Bromwich, Vanessa Friedman andMatthew Schneier.

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Harvey Weinstein appeared in a Man-hattan courtroom to answer sexualassault charges, which his lawyer saidhe “vigorously denies.” PAGE A18

NEW YORK A18-21

Producer Pleads Not GuiltyMaguy Le Coze may have retreatedfrom the dining room of the Midtowncitadel of seafood, but she remains afast-moving and vigilant force, worry-ing over every detail. PAGE D1

FOOD D1-8

Still the Boss of Le Bernardin

Some say a plan to diversify elite highschools unfairly targets Asian students.The chancellor disagrees. PAGE A18

High School Admissions Flap

Noah Feldman PAGE A23

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23

University leaders are navigating com-plex issues, like free speech, affordabili-ty and inclusion. And Christian collegestudents are using their faith to engagewith and change the world.

LEARNING: A SPECIAL SECTION

Difficult TerrainThe Russian leader visited Vienna tooverhaul frosty relations at a time whenthe Trump administration is treatingAmerica’s allies as trade rivals. PAGE A4

INTERNATIONAL A4-9

Putin Sees Opening in AustriaGreece appears to be turning a corneras it prepares to exit years of financialbailouts. But Greeks who left the coun-try aren’t convinced. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-8

No Hurry to Return to Athens

In an immigration ruling, EuropeanUnion member states were ordered torecognize same-sex marriages. PAGE A6

Same-Sex Unions in the E.U.Circulation rose while Gerard Baker ledThe Wall Street Journal, but he facedunrest in the newsroom. PAGE B1

Journal Replaces Its Editor

A visit to rural North Carolina illus-trates the many challenges facing pub-lic schools across the country. PAGE A10

NATIONAL A10-17

Budget Cuts for 3rd GradersDwight Clark’s leaping reception in1982 propelled San Francisco towardthe first of its N.F.L. titles. PAGE B15

OBITUARIES B14-15

49er Who Made ‘The Catch’

HUNCHUN, China — In theChinese border town of Hunchun,garment factories gladly employsquads of North Koreans, who arevalued as skilled and dutiful work-ers. Live crab from the Northwriggle in huge tanks in the fishmarket. Informal bankers prom-ise to deliver the equivalent ofthousands of dollars in Chinesecurrency to North Koreans acrossthe border in a matter of hours.

Up and down the 900-mile bor-der, in fact, Chinese businesspeo-ple export and import things likeChinese-made street lighting andexotic North Korean-grownmushrooms.

By all indications, China has atleast officially enforced the inter-national sanctions that have beenimposed on the North to curtail itsnuclear weapons program. But onthe border, the signs of North Ko-rea’s economic dependence onChina are evident in a shadoweconomy of cash couriers, short-term workers and gray-markettrading that has persisted despitethe sanctions.

And with President Trump’ssummit meeting with the NorthKorean leader, Kim Jong-un, backon track, excitement is growingabout the opportunities that couldopen up should the sanctions beeased.

Should a deal emerge from theTrump-Kim meeting on June 12 inSingapore, China is ready to ex-tend its dominance over theNorth’s small and decrepit econ-omy, where signs of an emergingmarket economy are alsostrengthening China’s hand.

Mr. Trump seemed to concedeChina’s leading role on Friday af-ter a meeting in the White Housewith North Korea’s spymaster-turned-letter-bearing-envoy fromMr. Kim. Mr. Trump told reportersthat he would leave it to China andalso South Korea to help the im-poverished North rebuild.

“That’s their neighborhood; it’snot our neighborhood,” said Mr.

Any Kim DealCould BolsterChina’s Trade

North Korea’s EconomyFeeds Off Neighbor

By JANE PERLEZ

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Facebook has data-sharingpartnerships with at least fourChinese electronics companies,including a manufacturing giantthat has a close relationship withChina’s government, the socialmedia company said on Tuesday.

The agreements, which date toat least 2010, gave private accessto some user data to Huawei, atelecommunications equipmentcompany that has been flagged byAmerican intelligence officials asa national security threat, as wellas to Lenovo, Oppo and TCL.

The four partnerships remain ineffect, but Facebook officials saidin an interview that the companywould wind down the Huawei dealby the end of the week.

Facebook gave access to theChinese device makers along withother manufacturers — includingAmazon, Apple, BlackBerry andSamsung — whose agreementswere disclosed by The New YorkTimes on Sunday.

The deals were part of an effortto push more mobile users ontothe social network starting in2007, before stand-alone Face-book apps worked well on phones.The agreements allowed devicemakers to offer some Facebookfeatures, such as address books,“like” buttons and status updates.

Facebook officials said theagreements with the Chinesecompanies allowed them accesssimilar to what was offered toBlackBerry, which could retrievedetailed information on both de-vice users and all of their friends— including religious and politicalleanings, work and education his-tory and relationship status.

Huawei used its private accessto feed a “social phone” app thatlet users view messages and so-cial media accounts in one place,according to the officials.

Facebook representatives saidthe data shared with Huaweistayed on its phones, not the com-pany’s servers.

Senator John Thune, the SouthDakota Republican who leads theCommerce Committee, has de-manded that Facebook provide

FACEBOOK GAVECHINESE GIANTS

ACCESS TO DATA

PHONE MANUFACTURERS

U.S. Officials Called OnePartner a National

Security Threat

By MICHAEL LaFORGIAand GABRIEL J.X. DANCE

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OAKLAND, Calif. — It’s likewatching Itzhak Perlman playwith a high school ensemble —that forgot its sheet music. Or lis-tening to Pavarotti forced not onlyto sing but to play the violins,harps and flutes, too.

To watch LeBron James score80 points in the first two games ofthe N.B.A. finals is to behold one ofthe greatest basketball players ofall time, at the age of 33, in fullcommand of his superpowers in abid for a fourth championshipring.

To watch LeBron James score80 points in two games and see histeam still losing the series to theGolden State Warriors is to beholdthe tragedy of the super per-former wrestling with an age-olddilemma: How much do I need mybackup singers?

James this season has upendeda team game — a sport in which abedrock assumption is that you’rebetter off with more good players— into a successful one-man show

that just might be reaching its he-roic limits.

On Sunday night, after the Cav-aliers lost to the Warriors, 122-103,in the second game of the best-of-seven series, James sat silently athis locker at Oracle Arena herewith his feet in a blue pail of icewater. He wore ice packs on hisknees as he bobbed his head tomusic that pumped through hisheadphones. He did not smile. Hebarely acknowledged anyone

A Virtuoso of the Hardwood,Dazzling, but Outnumbered

By SCOTT CACCIOLA

Losses have not diminishedthe artistry of LeBron James.

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MEXICO Mexico City imposedtariffs on the United States, fur-ther straining relations as the twowork to rewrite Nafta. PAGE B1

CHINA Beijing offered to buynearly $70 billion in Americangoods if the United States agreedto suspend tariffs. PAGE B2

Marco Cecchinato, an unseeded Italian,beat Novak Djokovic, who was none toopleased afterward. On Tennis. PAGE B9

SPORTSWEDNESDAY B9-13

Djokovic Upset at French Open

LOS ANGELES — Gavin New-som, the Democratic lieutenantgovernor and former mayor ofSan Francisco, took a major stepTuesday in his bid to become Cali-fornia’s next governor, capturingone of two spots on the Novemberballot as the state moved closer tothe end of the era of Gov. JerryBrown, according to The Associ-ated Press.

The fight for the second spot inthe general election was betweenAntonio R. Villaraigosa, a Demo-crat and former Los Angeles may-or, and John Cox, a Republican

business executive whose cam-paign was lifted by an endorse-ment from President Trump, whoreiterated his support with a tweetas voters were heading to the pollson Tuesday morning.

But the results were more mud-dled in the most-watched raceshere: Seven congressional dis-tricts, carried by Hillary Clinton in2016 and now held by Republi-cans, that Democrats are aimingto capture this November — alinchpin of their strategy to takeback control of the House.

Newsom Claims Place on BallotIn Race for California Governor

By ADAM NAGOURNEY and ALEXANDER BURNS

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GAINS BY WOMEN An ex-Navy pilot won a closely watched House racein New Jersey, fueling female Democrats across the country. PAGE A13

Late EditionToday, clouds and sunshine, cooler,high 72. Tonight, clear to partlycloudy, cool, low 57. Tomorrow, par-tial sunshine, remaining cool, high73. Weather map is on Page B16.

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