At the height of the crisis, according to a retired SAC wing commander, SAC airborne alert bombers deliberately flew past their turnaround points toward Soviet airspace, an unambiguous threat which Soviet radar operators would certainly have recognized and reported. I knew what my target was, the SAC general adds: Leningrad. The bombers only turned around when the Soviet freighters carrying missiles to Cuba stopped dead in the Atlantic.

By raising turkeys the farmers were able the more surely to pay their rents. Young girls often acquired a very sufficient dowry, and towns-folk who wished to eat them had to pay round prices for them.

Everywhere a sullen look — everywhere that ineffable aspect of crestfallenness!

For a band like My Bloody Valentine immersive guitarscapes might have offered a means of withdrawing into an indoor world of ambient textures and private daydreams.