Word: detroits
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...metal or ink. These new "cold type" procedures are dramatically faster; a photocomposing machine can spew out 150 lines a minute, compared to three lines a minute for a man and a Linotype. At a number of papers like the Los Angeles Times, Dallas Times-Herald, Miami Herald and Detroit News (TIME, Dec. 17), the technology is dazzling. Reporters compose their stories on keyboards attached to a computer and a small video screen-a sort of electronic "page." Editors call up the finished stories on their own screens, on which they can do their editing, and transfer final versions back...
Aside from Detroit, the city most immediately affected by the ruling is probably Louisville, where a federal judge last week ordered city and suburban school districts merged to facilitate desegregation; an appeals court may well use the Detroit case as grounds to overturn the order. Cross-district busing cases are also being pressed in Indianapolis, Atlanta, Wilmington, Del., Hartford, Conn., and a number of other cities. School officials in those communities will now have to look inside their districts for solutions to racial imbalance...
...Detroit, that is more easily said than done. Its school system - the nation's fourth largest, with 290,000 students and an annual budget approaching $300 million - is virtually bankrupt...
...products of its overcrowded, under staffed classrooms show up poorly when measured against national achievement norms: last year only 5% of fifth-graders and 6% of sixth-graders scored above average. Cornelius Golightly, black president of the Detroit school board, echoes Justice Marshall's concern...
...There are not enough middle-income people in Detroit. Integration is only meaningful if there are enough people to integrate. The decision is a step backward. It deprives the people of Detroit and the children of the nation of what essentially could have been a short cut to integration. The decision means that we will not use the schools as a means for integrating society...