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...Confirmed, by 64 (37 Democrats, 27 Republicans) to 22 (6 Democrats, 16 Republicans) President Eisenhower's nomination of liberal Republican Paul Hoffman, Marshall Plan administrator and now chairman of Studebaker-Packard (see BUSINESS) and of the Fund for the Republic, as one of five U.S. delegates to the U.N. General Assembly. The vote was preceded by a bitter battle in which Hoffman was attacked by the little three-New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy, Indiana's William Jenner-for having associated with "questionable" characters, praised by Oklahoma's Mike Monroney...
George Kraft '58 presided as general chairman of the tournament. Judges for the playoff debate for second place were Professor F.C. Packard, Jr. and Ensign Thomas B. Bardos...
...Houses will participate in four qualifying rounds in the afternoon to select the finalist teams. The two winners will debate in the Forum Room at 8:30 p.m. Frederick C. Packard, associate professor of Speech, will head a panel of judges...
...brand-new competitive V-8 engine plant, begun making its own bodies in a plant leased from Chrysler, talked the militant U.A.W. into reducing labor costs at Studebaker's South Bend factory to make them competitive with the rest of the industry, pioneered such engineering items on the Packard line as torsion-bar suspension and electrified push-button automatic shifts...
Dream into Reality? All of this was the groundwork for a radical restyling of the Packard line in 1957 to look like Packard's dream car, the Predictor, with sliding roof panels, disappearing headlights and radar brakes. With its advanced new car, Packard hoped to be able to compete with the Big Three and get solidly into the black. But when the time came to order retooling for the new model, said one Packard official sadly, "our money ran out." Now Packard plans only a face lifting of its models for next year. But if the merger goes through...