Word: hills
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...since that patter-perfect trombone salesman, Professor Harold Hill, arrived in River City to organize a boys' band has Iowa seen a confidence game this audacious. But where The Music Man set out to hoodwink the locals, this time the tables are turned: Iowa has pulled off a sting on the rest of the nation. Who could have imagined that Iowa of all places could create a $20 million winter tourist industry? This is, after all, a state where the weather is so fierce that Des Moines had to construct a latticework of skywalks to shield shoppers from the wind...
...second day of the new year, and Ronald Li, reputed to be the third richest man in Hong Kong, was still sleeping, when four officers of the government's special anticorruption unit suddenly turned up at his home on the colony's fashionable Shouson Hill. After rousing Li, the former chairman of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, the officers thoroughly searched his luxurious three-story house. Then they led away the 58-year-old billionaire, who had hurriedly donned a turtleneck sweater and sports jacket. At the same time, other government squads were arresting two of Li's closest...
Fortunately, the charms of Saigon are not the country's only attractions. The one-week tour features a day-trip to Cu Chi, site of a war museum, two - days at the beach resort of Nha Trang and an excursion to the former French hill station of Dalat. All this for $2,000, including round-trip airfare from San Francisco. The two-week tour ($3,000) adds stops at Danang, Hue, Hanoi, Haiphong and Ha Long Bay. Guides and transportation in a cramped van are part of the package, along with overnight accommodations in Manila...
...Hill, 64, a former state attorney general who will go into private practice, spent more than $1 million to get elected to the bench in 1984. But he came to believe that the "acceleration of campaign financing has become outrageous." He favors a merit-selection system, used in a number of states, under which the Governor selects judges from names submitted by a commission; the jurists are later voted up or down by the citizenry. Republican Governor William Clements is also pushing an appointive system, though only for the nine-member high court. "Texans have lost faith in their judicial...
...quotas and bans on aliens are hardly a desirable solution. On Capitol Hill some progress has been made toward the more positive goal of encouraging gifted Americans. Measures are under way in Congress that would increase graduate-fellowship aid from $115 million to $150 million next year, provide $95 million for upgrading university research facilities by 1990, and raise federal support for math and science education in elementary schools from $80 million to $150 million...