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Reminder of a Reminder. Florida's indifference comes partly from the letdown after the tumultuous gubernatorial campaign that ended in sweeping victory for Incumbent LeRoy Collins. Even more, it can be traced to the fact that Floridians, basking in the warmth of their economic boom, seem in no mood for a change: they still like Ike and tend to see the Democratic nominee, whoever he may be, as an inevitable also...
Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government, Seymour Harris '20, professor of Economics, and Holt B. Westerfield, instructor in Government, all agreed that, while the Kentucky Senator's victory was a distinct letdown to Stevenson supporters, it did not portend a trend in the Democratic party...
...ORDERS by manufacturers for machines and supplies are picking up so fast that the National Association of Purchasing Agents sees little chance of a second-half business letdown...
...Anxiety goes up after a man has successfully finished the training course and no longer has anything to fear from it-what the layman would call a letdown...
...told 600 Hoosier Republican leaders that he had noticed a letdown in G.O.P. spirits since the 1952 landslide. He was reminded of Luis Angel Firpo, the South American heavyweight, and Firpo's bout with Jack Dempsey in 1923. Said Ike: "In the first round he knocked Dempsey so far out into the audience that he broke two or three typewriters for the newspapermen. But Dempsey crawled back in the ring and whipped the tar out of him. Now, I don't think the Republican Party has any idea of being a Firpo...