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...YEAR 2000, by Herman Kahn and Anthony J. Wiener. Members of New York's Hudson Institute, one of the nation's leading think tanks, offer educated speculations on the quality of life at the beginning of the 21st century...
...From Herman Melville's Captain Vere (who hanged Billy Budd) to Herman Wouk's Captain Queeg (who rolled ball bearings during the Caine mutiny), naval literature has teemed with tales of rumbustious skippers and mutinous crewmen. Of late, the U.S. Navy has pitched and rolled to a real-life story that has all the elements of legend: a destroyer in war-torn waters, a high-handed captain called Marcus Aurelius Arnheiter, a roster of rebellious junior officers respectively named Hardy, Generous and Belmonte, and a precipitate change of command that reverberated clear to the Secretary of the Navy...
Agents are: Beth L. Pollock of East House and Chicago; Anita E. Herman of North House and Cambridge; and Marcia B. Kline of South House and Annandaleon-Hudson...
...NIGHT STANDS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). ABC News crews hopped on planes, buses and cars to record the stop-and-go lives of Bandleader Woody Herman, Singer Johnny Rivers and the Bartok-Hunt Circus...
...drove in 752 runs-and took more abuse from his managers than any other player in baseball. Bill Rigney called him "a little boy, to whom winning a pennant isn't as important as it ought to be." Alvin Dark complained that Cepeda had "more minuses than pluses." Herman Franks said he was "lazy" and "a faker," publicly accused him of malingering when he was crippled by a knee injury that hampered him for two years and finally required surgery. Last year Cepeda demanded to be traded. The Giants obligingly shipped him to the St. Louis Cardinals in exchange...