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What took ingenuity was figuring out how to operate a modern hotel at a profit and still provide for the 613 commandments Orthodox Jews must ob serve at all times. An Orthodox Jew cannot so much as press a button on the Sabbath, so the elevators are preset to go up and down automatically all day long, stopping at every floor. Since Jews can operate stoves if they are turned on before the Sabbath, all food in the kitchens is cooked before Friday sundown and then left to simmer through the night. Tearing toilet tissue is also forbidden by halacha...
...political stump or talking to a group of his fellow Baptist laymen on the subject of "The Erosion of the Lordship of Christ in the Protestant Church." But Hatfield will give convention voice to the far reaches of the western U.S. And no one doubts that the welltailored, button-down appeal of middle-reading Republican Hatfield will be a rating builder...
...system, built by Teleregister Corp. of Stamford, Conn., is based on a relatively simple computer that records all the figures reported from the floor of the exchange and holds them available for questioning. From the broker's telephone, an extra line runs to the computer. After pressing a button to activate the line, the broker merely dials the code numbers of the stock in which he is interested. In a second the computer answers in a toneless but pleasant voice. It repeats the stock's code letters, then gives the latest information-the bid price, the high...
Electronic sensing devices placed throughout the University account for the capability of these boards to give such quick readings at a distance. When the operator in Langdell pushes a button to get the temperature of the hot water running through the pipes of Mallinckrodt Laboratory, he is actually selecting the circuit which connects an indicator on the board to a special thermometer inside one of the Mallinckrodt pipes. Data boards by themselves are not fully automatic: the operator must decide what readings to take and then press the buttons. Also, a data board does not signal breakdowns in the system...
...push button 10," McFarlane continued as he pushed button 10, "and we find out how warm the I.A.B. pool is." An indicator needle on one of the dials showed that the water was at a very warm 78 degees. By pushing button 11 we found that the temperature of the air above the pool was an even more tropical 85. "The fellows over there tell us to keep it hot, so we do," McFarlane commented. Using other combinations of letters and numbers, we learned the temperature of the Lowell House dining hall (75) and of the water in the radiators...