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4-C Sunday, March 27. '77 DETROIT FREE PRESS irr i iger -Jf3- 5. b-i i -A sip vim A A A Wives Run The Show' Continued from 1C in his broken English, but he talks enthusiastically. "This first time I rest in 12 years," he says "I look at the life different." He has trouble explaining how, but gaze into his deep, dark eyes and watch his face. He is a man who never expected to leave Mexico for the big leagues of American baseball.

He has never left his roots. His friends are the same guys he palled with years ago. When he was home he held frequent parties for them with plenty of food and wine and tequila and a band occasionally. He hopes he can play for at least ten more years. He doesn't complain about his money.

"I happy," he says smiling. "Why I have to change?" Aurelio Rodriguez ought to be the baseball player every kid should look at as a sports hero. The guy is okay. I.I. mug UMI The Kemps Hiller: 6We Owe Baseball a Lot' John Hiller, the Tigers fine relief pitcher, his wife Janice, and their trio of children (Wendy and Steve with their mother above) are living in, two rooms in a Holiday Inn in Lakeland.

For the Hillers, baseball is a job to be done-the family is their main interest. Hiller, whose heart attack in 1971 almost ended his major league career, takes a workout (at left). "We owe a lot to baseball," he says. "We have to put up with the Go Ahead, Take a Scat, But Not at the Racetrack THIS IS A not-quite-gestalt column. This whole is simply the sum of its parts some bits of hard news about the soft sciences: "THAT SEAT IS SAVED" You can see that by the item that was left there a coat, a book, a newspaper, or even a Kleenex.

If you happen to be in a library or a cafeteria, go ahead, and take it anyway. That's the suggestion of psychologist Sidney Arenson of Syracuse University who, based on his research, thinks you'll get away with it. But don't try it at the racetrack. There, neighboring seatholders in the grandstand will rise up to defend the reserved sitzspots, especially if they know the absent occupant. Why one place and not another? Just as you suspected, seats are easier to come by in a library or cafeteria.

Further, folks who play the ponies need a view of that jock in the purple and gold silks, not to mention the nag he is riding. A good view means little in a library. We cannot recall anyone ever having said, "I have to sit here. I need to watch the shelf on Middle European History." NIGHT PEOPLE AND DAY PEOPLE Most of us have figured out that we are one or the other. What does that mean to your life? To your marriage? Three researchers have done a small study to find out.

The researchers are Ronald E. Cromwell and Bradford P. Keeney of the Family Study Center at the University of Missouri at Kansas City and Bert N. Adams of the University of Wisconsin. They have tried to generalize after questioning a very small sample of 28 married graduate students.

Their conclusions: Day people or morning people are more physical and outdoorsy. Night people tend toward less energetic activities. Day people have greater occupational success if they work during the day, but night people have more active social lives. About sex. The researchers suspect that morning couples are less sexually active and prefer to make love in the morning.

Night people, on the other hand LOVE IT at night. If marriage joins a night person with a day person, troubles can crop up. Such out-of-phase couples, the three researchers say, have less serious conversation, fewer shared activities, less sex, poorer adjustment to marriage, more unmanaged conflict and greater threat of divorce. So if he says, "Let's wait until morning," you might want to rethink marriage plans. NEW MAG Look out, Psychology Today.

A new monthly magazine on human behavior is scheduled to appear by late fall. And another dark-horse scientific slick is in the planning stages. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, the New York publishing house, estimates that its new full-color magazine Human Nature, may hit the stands as early as November. HN will take a multi-disciplinary approach to why-we-do-what-we-do. Content: the latest research in sociology, anthropology, health and medicine, education, child development, economics, ecology and, of course, psychology.

No kitchen sink. Format: long articles 4,000 to 5,000 words a monthly essay, a news-and-comments section, and the inevitable book reviews. Readership: professionals in the various fields and "educated lay people." Price: as yet, undetermined. Probably in the $10 to $12 per year range. Sales: mostly by subscription, some newsstand sales.

The big plus for Human Nature's success, aside from having HBJ as publisher, is its editor. She is Elizabeth Hall, the highly respected former managing editor of Psychology Today. Psychology is the proposed monthly of the American Psychological Association. The idea, now in the form of a 24-page prototype, must be approved by APA members, who will vote on it next month. If members give the nod, then the magazine envisioned as a sort of readable Scientific American for psychology will be sent exclusively to the membership starting some time next year.

If all of that goes well, then the magazine will be opened to subscriptions from the general public. FEW MEN AND WOMEN in the major leagues have experienced the trauma and the joy of baseball more than John and Janice Hiller. At 32, relief pitcher John Hiller is the He has always played baseball and she has always liked sports. They both look it. Naturally, Steve and LeAnne Kemp met between games at a USC-UCLA double header a couple years ago.

They hit it off and teamed up before they got married in December. Kemp, 22, was the Tigers number one draft pick last season. "I'm doing something I want to do," he says. "You only live once." HE TALKS ABOUT how lucky and fortunate he feels to be playing with such a fine ball club and how he's going to do his best and how this is such a great chance and how lucky and fortunate he feels to be playing for such a nice ball club and how someday he would like to be a coach and maybe get into real estate back in California and about how lucky and fortunate he is and how he's going to give it his best shot. LeAnne is 21, talkative, vivacious.

She realizes lots of things about being a baseball bride pluses and minuses. She says the road trips the ten days at home, then the ten days on the road are a boon. "How many women have that kind of she wonders. She said she knew she'd never have a career because of the mobility of the profession Steve is in, so she went to a secretarial school to make sure she could get some sort of job while he was not home. She remembers when they weren't married and he was playing minor league ball, how she would get together with the wives of the players in that league and how she discovered they all had the same problems.

That was group therapy, she said. Th; problems were predictable. When their men were gone, they missed them. When they returned home, the relationships were intense perhaps more intense than regular couples experience. LeAnne wants to be something, but she's not sure what yet.

"He hits a home run," she says, "and everybody knows it. What do you do as a wife? You can't go on the field." he's called to pitch the ninth inning in Cleveland, Jan's there on the home front and that makes him comfortable. In fact, close friends of Hiller say he doesn't even like to watch baseball games. It's a job, Hiller says. The family is the main thing in his life.

Oh, he's not down on the sport. But he can hardly wait until he retires so he can "work on the house" and spend the summers in Duluth, too. "We owe a lot to baseball," Hiller says. "We have to put up with the hardships. Where else could a guy with an 11th grade education have what we have?" SO IN 11 DAYS Hiller, Kemp, Rodriguez, Fidrych and the rest of the Tigers will be back in Detroit.

Lakeland will return to oranges and phosphates. The Kemps will find a place somewhere near Birmingham. The Hillers, Ypsilanti. Rodriguez will bring his wife and kid up here and live in a downriver suburb. Fidrych will somehow make it north on 1-75 in his new Thunderbird.

The weather will most probably be cold. But that's good, says the Tiger coaches. The warm weather tends to make the players limp and yawny. The chillier northern stuff will perk them up. YES! Soon again we will be hearing second oldest player on the squad (behind Mickey Stanley, 34).

In 1971, Hiller suffered a heart attack that nearly knocked him out of the big leagues and almost forced him to try to hack out a living in Duluth on an 11th grade education. His wife, Janice, is an earthy woman of frequent smiles. But you can see some fatigue in her eyes. That comes from the trio of Hiller children. The Hillers are living in two rooms at a Holiday Inn in Lakeland with their children and their tiny ice box and their beat-up Minnesota van.

"I can't think of marriage without children," says Hiller, who quickly adds that Jan's the one who has raised them. She deserves the credit. He enjoys having his family with him at spring training. Heck, their kids were the first into the motel pool chilly water, run, leap. "It was freezing," laughs Hiller.

So was their winter in Duluth. The couple seems content. Hiller lavishes praise on Jan for the job she does raising the and running the show at home. He says he enjoys his home life, that he really hates going out in crowds, that he doesn't get bored easily that he could just sit at home in an armchair and stare at the ceiling molding and not get bored. He says that by the end of September, when baseball season is chugging out its final innings, he starts to think about missing the game for the off season, but quickly' gets wrapped up with the wife and kids and Duluth.

Every night, Hiller and Jan say, they sit down with the kids and talk about what they did during the day. When fte's not there, when Ml ft Hie Hillers Ernie Harwell, the radio voice of the Tigers, is standing at the side of the clubhouse watching the players practice. He's a wise man. The whole baseball society, he says, is really a martrianical society the wives run the show. Their husbands go to work everyday playing baseball and come home sometimes sore, sometimes on cloud nine, and it's the wives who keep the families together, who raise the children, who make the big the Tigers survived that YES! We and dumb winter.

Now if the Bird can win 25 and Hiller I save another 20 an Kemp can belt out .350 and Horton whaps out 35 homers and nobody gets injured Mark "The Bird" Fidrych: "If he can win 25 and Hiller saves another 20 HEALTH CARE A LAVISH SUBSIDY Calif ano's Plan: Control Hospital Budgets TOO MUCH Real-Life Violence Stops Film Showing IT WAS MONTHS AGO that Channel 7 scheduled "The Boston Strangler" as the 11:30 movie Saturday night. Last week station execs pulled the film in favor of "The Fortune Cookie," Jack Lemmon-Walter Matthau comedy. Reason: In view of the recent grisly Oakland County child murders eDtrdit needed something light. Hardly an Endorsement MAYOR YOUNG'S STAFF is plenty unhappy about an internal memo being circulated by the Democratic National Committee. The memo, which looks at the mayor's races in 10 cities, says Young is going to be tough to beat.

That's OK with the mayor's people. What they don't like is a sentence that says, "Despite much controversy and corruption in his administration there does not seem to be much erosion of support." Young supporters are quick to point out that there hasn't been any proven corruption in the administration. Paul Sullivan, executive director of the DNC, says it was a mistake and "much ado about nothing." Meet John Smith, R-Mich. PETER FLETCHER, MICHIGAN'S Republican national committeeman, was among a group of Republicans who attended a fund raiser Thursday for Wayne County Prosecutor William Cahalan, a Democrat. Republican Fletcher wore a name tag that identified bim as "John Smith." rate of no more than nine percent a year.

The average now is 15 percent. But no one knows how he will do it. The force that drives medical costs upward springs from a deep source. Buried under layers of institutional debris, it is really quite simple. It is the desire of sick people to be cured, at whatever the cost, combined with healthy people's determination to become healthier.

It's the same thing that made Dale Carnegie rich, in a more desperate form. Doctors, hospitals, insurance companies and massive federal agencies all are borne along on its tide. Because it's so much more comfortable, even profitable, to swim along with the current than to resist, few even try. Those who try to trim the growth of the medical system are overwhelmed by the complexity of the task. They disappear ignominiously.

No federal agency has learned to say no to the hospitals. (No private agency has the nerve.) Bureaucrats are incapable of writing a rule that would distinguish between a sick person seeking help and a healthy person seeking comfort. No one could devise such a rule. So, given the task of cutting costs, it imposes ceilings wherever it can: ceilings on doctor fees, on technicians' salaries, on the purchase and rental of machinery and on everything else that can be quantified and limited. This doesn't have the desired effect, though.

First, it doesn't apply to private health care. And second, for the public system, it just makes the task of administration more complex without instilling any impulse toward self-restraint. It doesn't discourage hypochondriacs' imaginations or doctors' greed, reduce reliance on drugs, cut unnecessary hospitalization or create efficient patterns of work. On the contrary, doctors and patients tend to view a ceiling as a floor. The outsiders who try to Impose them are seen as meddlesome bureaucrats; they are despised for their devotion to paperwork, fee schedules, reimbursement fro-; mulae, asinine questionnaires and surveys, and tot their ignorance and suspicion.

The system is turned upside down; this way. Instead of encouraging doctors and patients to be i self-critical, it makes then defensive and Everyone tries to beat the rules, and the honest players-lose. 1 Continued from 1C and an unpersuasive threat to lower federal reimbursements to hospitals that didn't show some restraint. The latest of the studies, written for the wage and price council by Martin Feldstein and Amy Taylor of Harvard University, was published in January. Although many of the findings are presented in statistics, the conclusion is In clear English: "The sustained increase in the cost of hospital care is without parallel in any other sector of the economy.

The cost of a day of hospital care is currently increasing at an annual rate of more than 15 percent While the general level of consumer prices has risen 125 percent since 1950, the cost of a day of hospital care has climbed more than 1000 percent." Most important, the authors found that inflation was not driven as hospitals often claim by an increase in workers' wage demands, the cost of supplies or even by an increase in patients' demands for service. Costs have gone up, they decided, because hospitals are accustomed to recieving lavish subsidies from unquestioning producers of money. They spend accordingly: "The effect of prepaying health care through insurance, both public and private, is to encourage hospitals to provide a more expensive product than the consumers actually wish to purchase." Because doctors, not patients, actually decide how much we spend on health care, because doctors do not lose but gain when spending increases, and because the cost of medicine is obscured by bureaucratic agencies, the system devours every penny made available and asks for more. Somebody must say, No. Who will it be? A NEW ADMINISTRATION has come to town trumpeting threats and preparing to join the fray.

President Ford's people went so far last year as to threaten to deny uncooperative and spendthrift hospitals a fraction of tht federal money they receive from the medicaid and medicare programs. The plan was to deny them the reimbursement they get from the deterioration of facilities, to take, away their depreciation allowance. It was a small gesture and the hospitals weren't shaken. But now Joseph Calif ano. the new Secretary of Health, ill 1 2sl to SI That's Equality WOMEN ARE BEGINNING to occupy jobs formerly reserved for men in the Detroit Police Department.

It's only natural that they inherit some of the sticky situations as well. A chief's disciplinary hearing board ordered a female officer suspended from the force for a month after they found her guilty of firing five shots at her boyfriend during an argument-one of the shots caught him in the face. The hearing board also placed her on one year's probation. HEW's Joseph Califano: He wants to hold hospital costs to a 9 percent annual increase, but no one knows how or if he can do it. Education and Welfare, seeks a more draconian measure.

He would like to have, and President Carter promises he will get, a new federal law putting all hospital budgets in the U.S. under his control. Califano said that if he obtains this power, he will let hospitals expand their budgets at the.