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...that is morale. After the Navy and Dartmouth games, Harvard was expected to slump against Princeton, and it did exactly that. Now the psychology experts figure that it will be on the upswing, while Army, which hit a real emotional peak against the Irish, should suffer a similar letdown, preferably Saturday afternoon...
...locked up in his head and in the brief case that he always kept at his side. There were mighty problems on which observers of China must make decisions: the seriousness of recurring Communist disputes; the increase in the circulation of paper money; hoarding and speculation in rice; the letdown in morale that accompanies a military stalemate...
Trip 16 was at 13,000 feet. The radioman heard her turn south and begin the prescribed letdown procedure to get under the ceiling. Few minutes later she was overhead again, now at 9,000 feet, headed north and flying out her problem as she had done scores of times before. Few minutes later Howard Fey made his last call. He was over the Layton marker, 18 miles north of the field. The operator knew his next move would be a turn to the left, into the "A" Zone, a swing back on the beam, an easy letdown from...
There was no letdown that day: into Pittsburgh the caravan rolled like a victorious army, through enthusiastic crowds that finally burst into one roaring welter of people and noise in the city's famed Golden Triangle, where blizzards of torn paper swirled and settled only to swirl up again as new waves of screaming rolled up. Only casualty: a motorcycle policeman hit on the wrist by a telephone book someone had neglected to tear...
...Britain there had been "as yet no serious military damage"; that British claims of German casualties were "absolutely correct"-an inference that German air reports are faked (TIME, Aug. 19); that there would probably be no decision this winter. In the R. A. F. he noted "no sign of letdown or fatigue...