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...freestyle and qualified for the A.A.U. National Championships in Lincoln, Neb. Spitz remembers: "I had two days off so I decided as a lark to swim in both the 100-and 200-yd. butterfly just to keep busy." He won the 100, but his exultation and subsequent letdown cost him the next three events...
After the glitter, the ceremonies, the maneuvering and the hard work of a summit, there is usually some letdown, a return to a kind of normality. Both Nixon and Brezhnev have domestic matters to deal with. The President will find skeptics on the left pointing out that the Viet Nam War is still not over; skeptics on the right are already questioning the new amity with the Communists, including the SALT agreement and what it does to American security. But on balance, the summit can only be a vast political asset for Nixon...
Harvard settled for the body of the race at a steady 34-35 pace, but the letdown came far too late to make any difference for the Tigers. By the 1000-meter mark the Crimson had open water on the desperate Tiger eight, who, despite a strong and smooth performance, could not gain on the streaking Crimson boat...
...engaged the audience in their music. The Falloon's stage presence between songs is not one of their strong points, hindered by a lot of self-conscious joking and the technical problems of shifting from instrument to instrument. Any unity in a set is broken up by this letdown between songs...
...book, which contains a novella and six stories, is in most ways a letdown. Leafstorm, the long work, is also about Macondo, but it is an early, earnest exercise in which three narrators-a boy, his mother and his grandfather-recall the old man's efforts to give a decent burial to an outcast whom the town wants to leave to the vultures...