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plumb the depth of it in one place so it was obviously a volcanic hot spring with a lot of dissolved limestone which deposited gradually around the edge and made the dam. But it is some dam, believe me, it backs up a lake several miles long and at least 100 feet deep at the dame face. Furthermore, if man had made a curving dam it would have been convex upstream not curving conacave downstream. The fact that it did meant that it had to be that much stronger to hold the lake. It was a really fantastic sight.

We "did" several other places in Afghanistan, ruins of cities destroyed by Genghis Khan, more mosques and Moslem schools and shrines, goats, camels, sheep, bumpy and dusty roads, native bazaars, etc. One interesting fact is that riding along in the bus you practically never see a woman and only very small girls. Those that are seen are wrapped up in their black robes with their faces covered. This is really a machismo society as of course Moslem societies always were and, except for the more modern countries and cities with more western connections, still are. Woman's place is really in the home. But enough of Afghanistan. I never thought I'd ever get there and it's not the most comfortable place in the world but it was interesting to see, as life there is so different from what I've seen before. But the tour had other places to see so we went to Tashkent in the Uzbek Republic of the U.S.S.R.

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Recently, I served as a judge in the "Best-Dressed-Girl Contest" at one of our universities. Prior to the contest, each girl had been asked to write a paragraph about what constituted for her a feeling of being "best dressed."

If there had been a prize for the most intriguing answer, I would have given it to the girl who simply wrote: "I feel best, dressed."

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