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...historic moment, or that the public's expectations were intensified by its being the first event of such magnitude ever to be staged for television. Even so, there is a widespread feeling that what followed the President's dramatic voyage was somewhat anticlimactic, a bit of a letdown-except, perhaps, for returning journalists and officials, who found themselves instant celebrities in demand for interviews and talk shows. Abroad, the trip caused plenty of comment and speculation, both favorable and unfavorable. By contrast, the U.S. reaction was rather uncritically enthusiastic...
While it must give guarded political glances to the East, economically Finland looks to the West. The country has a forest-based economy that suffered a letdown after the boom of 1968-70 and is now faced with inflation, rising unemployment, a drop in G.N.P. growth from 8% to 1% in 1971, and a trade gap that last year topped $250 million. The country is counting heavily on the favorable outcome of free-trade agreements now being hammered out with the Common Market-particularly important when Britain, Finland's most important trading partner, joins...
...Crimson has successfully avoided overconfidence. Coach Jack Barnaby recently distributed a letter to the team that warned that a cocky Harvard squad could suffer an upset or letdown, as Penn did last year...
...Crimson could not put the game out of Brandeis reach. When it gained the momentum with a series of well-executed plays, it would turn it right back with a series of turnovers and poor shots. "We are still suffering from last weekend's letdown," Harrison said...
...spree to stock up on clothes, cars and all sorts of consumer goods in order to beat the next price hike. Daring entrepreneurs became instant millionaires; even penny-ante plungers built up neat nest eggs in the stock market. Inevitably, an exhilarating boom faded into sobering recession. But the letdown was usually short and sharp, followed quickly by rebound and prosperity...