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Pedro Infante was dead. Editors all over Mexico broke the news last week with inch-high type. Radio and television stations cleared the air for the story. For in the eyes of his Spanish-speaking movie fans throughout the world, Infante, 39, was all stars in one-a Valentino who could croon...
...sense. The vibratory sense is lodged in bone, which can feel the vibration of a tuning fork even when surrounding tissue cannot. Two-point discrimination (in itself a two-part sensory apparatus) can best be demonstrated with a schoolboy's compass whose steel and pencil points are an inch apart. Held against the back, this feels like a single object -the skin of the back has little two-point discrimination, and may need to have the compass spread three or four inches. But the hand can distinguish the two points when they are but a fraction of an inch...
...inspired varsity tennis team refused to yield an inch, either to Presbyterian College's reputation or to its players, and, producing some of the finest tennis seen at Harvard in many years, pulled the seemingly impossible feat of defeating Presbyterian...
...Celtics had won their other games by using a fast break and running the Hawks ragged. Now the Hawks stole Boston's strategy and ran with the Celtics every inch of the way. They were still running when the regular game ended 103-103. The first overtime period only pushed the tie to 113-113. In the second overtime, the Celtics finally decided that if St. Louis was going to steal their strategy, they might as well try the one trick that had always worked for the Hawks. With their San Francisco import, big Bill Russell, grabbing every rebound...
...take more than a rooting interest. Egged on by TV (which devotes an estimated 9,000 hours each year to bowling), they have succumbed to an athletic urge to topple tenpins themselves. When the 54th annual championships began in Fort Worth last month, the American Bowling Congress needed every inch of the vast Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum to accommodate 16,000 competitors from all over the country. Last week, after five weeks of clamorous competition, the tournament was still drawing big crowds. With only two weeks to go, the battle was so close that it was still impossible to pick...