'Numbers are all the money men understand.'The workers have few good words for their own union either 'They are weak' is the usual comment. Socks made of 100 per cent natural fibres might be more comfortable against the skin, but they need careful washing. His social life is much busier in the country than in Dublin, where he has a small, rarely visited house His neighbours, like him, are farmers, no longer young. The audience probably did not notice that 'the gramophone horn didn't spin during the pyro sequence'.But this tiny non-event did not elude Pygmalion's stage manager, a perfectionist whose report ensures that the appropriate technician will see to it that tomorrow night all goes spinningly.Having noted the absentees and illnesses and what appropriate action was taken (RSC's Edward II: 'Miss Behean screamed instead of Miss Kemp, since Miss Kemp is suffering from swollen nodes on her vocal chords' (she has since recovered)), the really vital statistics are the show's running times: curtain up, curtain down and interval length. Pies: Lancashire pies ( pounds 1.75), and miniature pork pies (69p).

They wore red ribbons and joined hundreds of people gathering to walk for the Aids charities, Fashion Acts and Crusaid. For many it was a moment of truth, learning that the sponsored amble was not the direct route to Hyde Park (barely two miles) but a more circuitous seven miles. She was the first female undergraduate at Clare College Cambridge.Awarded a scholarship in Maths, she switched to Economics, in which she gained an Upper Second. During the campaign, he avoided alienating supporters of other teams by fusing Il Milan with the national side. (The game is coordinated by computer.)What is more interesting is the way in which fantasy leagues have caught the imagination of predominantly middle-class people who, 10 years ago, or even five years ago, would not have been so openly enthusiastic about anything connected with football.Even though the game has still has its deep-rooted problems with self-image, the fact is that football is becoming respectable again. Lively, quick-spoken and with evident conviction, Ms Spottiswoode gives the impression that this is the role she has been waiting for throughout her varied career.She is an economist by training, and joined the Treasury in 1977. Are they determined by NBA rules or are they purely the choice of the player? The number 23, for example, is now synonymous with the great Michael Jordan.A. By 1980 his whereabouts were again unknown.He will never be brought to justice: in 1989, he died, with 18 others, in a guerrilla attack on an army barracks on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.At one level, the mystery now seems to be resolved: if Gaguine was working for Sandinista intelligence, it seems clear that the Sandinistas were the authors of the crime.

see the interim government as a consensus arrangement for concluding the transitional agenda of this administration, which was disrupted by the imperative need to nullify the 12 June presidential elections,' Gen Babangida said. In Cologne, 22 young Turks were arrested after gangs smashed dozens of windows, pillaged several shops and attacked a bus and two police vans. It also brings us to the heart of the argument, the heart of the team if you like: as long as Wales ignore the concept of outside-half-as-playmaker they are going to struggle.Someone put it nicely on Welsh television the other day: in football parlance, Wales need someone who can put his foot on the ball, and this is a judgement which would be equally valid even if the Welsh forwards were cleaning out all opposition (which, of course, they are not).Dare one suggest Adrian Davies, who after all is a Cambridge football as well as rugby Blue, could be the man?Or perhaps - just perhaps - the selection of Rupert Moon to face France tomorrow as a Terry Holmes- type scrum-half at the heels of a struggling pack will mean a change of decision-maker and so take the pressure off Jenkins.The criteria that Alan Davies wishes his outside-half to fill were delineated in a revealing conversation before the championship commenced and, even if this is an application of the exact science of hindsight, the coach's view then is no less cogent now.'First of all the player has to be able to understand the strategy and implement certain tactics That's a minimum requirement,' Davies said. Old Trafford will have a capacity crowd of 36,000 to see whether Manchester United can go top for the first time this season by beating Tottenham. If found guilty, Stoke's leading scorer is likely to be suspended for three games. Lu Ping, director of the Hong Kong and Macao Office, accused him of violating Sino-British agreements, including what he said were secret undertakings to comply with China's views on election arrangements before 1997.If the governor refused to obtain China's approval for his plans, Mr Lu said, they would have to be reversed after the takeover. A SALESMAN wept in court yesterday as he told a jury how he hit a stranger on the back of the head with a baseball bat in a motiveless attack.

But there was a vogue for the Jungle Books when they first appeared in French translation at the end of the last century, generating the cross-Channel phenomenon of le scoutisme in their wake - a phenomenon so thoroughly absorbed into French culture that generations of scouting garcons were brought up with no idea of the true nationality of Baden-Powell. Vaughan is a credit to New Malden even if New Malden might not quite see it that way.. Ardiles, who has until noon today to register a player in time for tomorrow's match against Manchester United, said yesterday that there 'had been no new developments'.The Tottenham manager did receive encouraging news yesterday from Gary Mabbutt, who said he aims to be back in action next month after injuries caused by his collision with John Fashanu's elbow.Harry Redknapp, West Ham's popular assistant manager, yesterday emerged as the choice of Southampton fans to replace the man they forced out of The Dell, Ian Branfoot. 'She is getting stronger; her appetite for running remains.'One of the factors which has contributed to Radcliffe's progress is a sensible schedule which includes regular health checks.