There was a time when Mandlikova would tauntingly flex her muscles behind Navratilova's

There was a time when Mandlikova would tauntingly flex her muscles behind Navratilova's back to make a point about her opponent's body-building.Novotna also scored a point in her interview yesterday. George Bernard Shaw may have argued for unwashed, fragrantly lanolin-rich wool all-in-ones as the future of fashion, but his sanity was never questioned. But I deal with it in my own way by not reading about myself. The 'brooms' are little larger than a beach spade, and the hitting end, armed with a plastic head like a badly made waffle, trundles the ball at a leisurely pace across the ice.Unlike ice hockey, where mayhem is the name of the game, broomball is a non-contact sport. When a farmer asked a neighbour to mow the oats in his 3 1/2 -acre field, the poor man 'endeavour'd to sell the Sweat of his Brows and Marrow of his Bones at as dear a Rate as reasonably he might some sharp Words had passed The irritated farmer with a stern look. I often stayed with him, and he would stay at home and read scripts, watch television and keep fit.'Don Macpherson, who wrote The Big Man, concurs.

But helicopters are perfect for a country as small as England.'British Helicopter Champion of 1987, the 30-year-old has been flying since the age of five 'My father was the distributor for Hughes Helicopters. Maude was unhappily married to Tommy Tailer, a business partner of Cecil's. Having served in the Second World War, Wright benefited from the GI Bill, which enabled him to study at Kenyon under John Crowe Ransom, among whose earlier pupils were Robert Lowell and Randall Jarrell. The closed Saver account drops 1.1 per cent to 0.5 per cent gross (0.38 per cent net) - a real incentive to savers to transfer money in closed accounts.Nationwide moved its rates last Thursday by just a shade under 1 per cent gross. The child actors are good, though (and the idea of a junior school staging a musical version of Eliot's 'The Hollow Men' is fun); they can make the film seem quite bearable until another one of Carly Simon's ghastly songs clumps on to the soundtrack Sample lyric: 'I love Lucy and pumpernickel bread.

Kismayu was the third important stop - after the capital, Mogadishu, and the interior town of Baidoa - in Operation Restore Hope's drive to open up Somalia's famine belt to international food deliveries. A measure of Rotherham's confidence was the way they twice tried the old Coventry 'flick-up' free-kick routine, as worked by Willie Carr and Ernie Hunt every week on Match of the Day's opening sequence.Nicky Law, mis-kicking at a corner, and Des Hazel, who overran the ball and allowed Ronnie Sinclair to smother, had chances before Stoke began to impose their relentless rhythm. Mike Griffiths, their long-serving prop, has broken his collar-bone - not in training but riding a bicycle - and though Wales are not playing in the first round of Five Nations games he is out of the entire championship.In common with Dewi Morris and Peter Winterbottom, two more casualties of Saturday's Orrell v Harlequins First Division match, Carling did not train in the rain with the rest of the team at Twickenham yesterday. A number of councils say that more has been taken out than used to be spent on running the colleges.The provisional capping criteria acts as a warning to councils that they may be designated for capping if they breach the limits. The talk in Brixton bus garage, from where routes such as the 118, 137 and 159 are run, is of nothing else.

Having previously been aide-de-camp to its Commander-in- Chief, Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt, he flew Blenheims on operations over north-west Europe in 1940-41, gaining the DSO. Lord Parkinson was asked by the Great Ormond Street children's hospital, in London, to see if Botnar would contribute He gave pounds 8m in 1990. Mr Major and Mr Delors are not quite so far apart as the reports from the Copenhagen summit indicated. 'Do you think they - er - you know?''You know what?''Do it.''I asked Penny,' said Abby From The Eighties, 'but she said she didn't know. She associated the swimming pool with hard labour; enjoyment was gathered elsewhere.So it was with the tentative toe- dip of a novice that Hardcastle re- entered the water, swimming a couple of lunch-times a week before discovering she enjoyed it more than she expected and deciding to do the thing properly.Last September she left her secretarial job and approached the man who had coached her from the age of seven, Mike Higgs. THE US Secretary of State, Warren Christopher, is to visit Damascus today for the second time during his current Middle East tour, raising hopes that his 'shuttling' may have established a constructive dialogue between President Hafez al-Assad, the Syrian President, and Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli Prime Minister. It soon became better than that when 20 seconds after turning round Ian Bishop released Jones, who evaded Culverhouse and then finished coolly as Gunn advanced.Back the game went Norwich's way when the impressive Sutton climbed above the Hammers' hesitant goalkeeper to meet Colin Woodthorpe's cross from the left.