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Lynn Young is 33, attractive, unmarried-and likes it that way. "I'd rather grow old alone than with some old creep," she says. "What's the point in marrying just not to be lonely when you are old. When the children have grown up you just look at each other and get bored...
INTO YOUR TENT I'LL CREEP by Pefer De Vries. 244 pages. Little, Brown...
Betty Friedan could hardly ask for more pejorative typecasting. Still, Into Your Tent I'll Creep gives domestic equality a very fair run for its money. The girl is a nice French teacher named Miss Piano, whose forte is snatching the conversational ball from a man and running with it farther and more knowledgeably than he ever could. The boy is Al Banghart, a canny, easygoing Chicago skirt chaser and lowbrow who once flunked her high school French course. Besides being fond of Miss Piano, Al believes in her career. When they marry, he quits his nowhere...
...main line; at same time an eastward freight sweeps by on the descending grade. After Victorville it is a climb of 1,106 ft. in 19 miles to the summit of Cajon Pass, eerily shrouded in fog. We crawl along, watching for signals looming out of murk, then creep down the steep slope, air brakes hissing, to San Bernardino. Suddenly all is neon lights, freeways, gas stations and palm trees...
Then, too, there is growing concern as drugs creep into Nixon's natural middle-class white constituency. Reston, Va., for example, the planned community once heralded as an American dream suburb, has a drug problem. Two weeks ago, a 14-year-old runaway from the community, Carolyn Ford, died from a heroin overdose. In the same week, a 17-year-old Santa Barbara, Calif., youth stabbed himself to death rather than surrender to narcotics officers; he was among 41 people being rounded up in raids following a four-month narcotics investigation...