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...mood among 3,000 hometown supporters gathered in front of the restored Victorian train station in Wilmington, Del., was as buoyant as the red, white and blue balloons waiting to be unleashed to the sky. Yet there was Joe Biden, gambling that he could pump up the crowd even higher while challenging his middle-class neighbors with the specter of a "nation at risk" from materialist values, declining industries, drug abuse, inadequate schools and kids abandoned to poverty. "It is the plight of our children that is the moral test of our time," he roared in a voice that bounced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Portrait, Joe Biden: Orator for the Next Generation | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

...Mount Snow (802 464-3333) take Route 2 West to Interstate 91 North. Get off at Exit 2, Brattleboro, Vermont, and then follow Route 9 West 20 miles to Wilmington. At the stoplight turn right onto Route 100 North. From there it's nine miles to the slopes...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Vermont's Best White Powder | 1/23/1987 | See Source »

...cause of the fire is believed to be a cigarette left burning on a couch by William M. Greto '87-'88 of Wilmington, Del., who was staying as a guest in the sixth-floor suite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arson Unit Investigates Fire in Quincy House | 1/9/1987 | See Source »

...tangential interest is drawing--in particular creating cartoons--again reflecting his sense of the offbeat. Last year he helped put together a cartoon book, and he has done the graphics for several of the house T-shirts. Cooperson jokingly traces this interest in the unusual back to his hometown: Wilmington, Delaware. "It's so small and American. I needed the exotic...

Author: By Rebecca W. Carman, | Title: Speaking in Tongues | 11/20/1986 | See Source »

...polls, and that only because of his name, ambition and prior public service. But last week, an hour after becoming the first major politician to announce his presidential candidacy, Du Pont set out on the familiar path of aspirants who need miracles: he was en route from Wilmington to the first skirmish sites. "I'm in Iowa and New Hampshire," he observed cheerfully, "from here to eternity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Patrician and the Preacher | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

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