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.

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.

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.

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