You’ve stumbled across a ‘hidden’ feature of WordPress and TinyMCE (the visual editor) it has a problem with line breaks and strips them out.
Try either of these two plugins:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/line-break-shortcode/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-breaks/
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