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...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...
...passers-by in Wilmington, Del., last week, the strange round, candy-striped craft might have looked like the UFO sighting of the century. As it hovered above the ground, the large sphere-as well as the four long wings sticking out of its sides-rotated slowly, like some ominous unearthly creature. In fact, the odd contraption was a practical terrestrial creation. Designed by the All American Engineering Co. of Wilmington, Del., the Aerocrane, as it is called, is an unlikely cross between helicopter and balloon. It should easily outperform both in at least one important respect: the ability to hoist...
...than What is better than owing $64 million? Well, owing only $20 million-as, now, does Lammot du Pont ("Motsey") Copeland Jr., a great-great-great -grandson of the founder of the Du Pont dynasty. Climaxing one of history's largest personal bankruptcy actions, his overworked platoon of Wilmington lawyers settled with a creditors' committee, whittling down his debt from a series of misbegotten enterprises...
...National Bank of Dallas, is $1.7 million, pared from $4.3 million. The same haggling that reduced Copeland's liabilities also reduced his assets, apart from trusts, to less than $2 million, from about $26 million. He was forced in the agreement, for example, to put his $500,000 Wilmington mansion up for sale. And settlement could well have been prolonged even further had not the Copeland family-notably Lammot Sr., former chairman of Du Pont-agreed to withdraw some $3.6 million in family claims...
...GOOD YEAR tire plant shines in the afternoon sun as the train slows down for Wilmington, Del. Children play in a puddle of murky water to the side of a windowless concrete warehouse. The decayed corrugated metal walls of the Phoenix Steel Corp sit icily in dank shadows. On through fields of belching smokestacks and huge storage containers...