Word: predictor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wide. At the Cape fire station, the crew gets a lecture in handling fires that might break out in the unearthly, exotic fuels. In a grey and silver building, one man takes charge of 53 spools of colored wire used to maintain the big IBM 704 impact predictor computer. On the launching pads, workers clamber along the service-tower catwalks to tinker with the steel-fisted launcher that holds a missile down during thrust buildup...
...last April. 1957 PACKARD will be produced despite reports that Studebaker-Packard and Rescuer Curtiss-Wright would drop next year's model. In January, company will start turning out either face-lifted 1956 model or redesigned and upgraded Studebaker bearing Packard name. Completely new model based on experimental Predictor (TIME, April 23) will come...
...Predictors & Mercedes. Under the present deal, Studebaker will consolidate all automaking at South Bend, leaving the defense business to Curtiss. With its new funds, it will be able to bring out a 1957 Studebaker line on schedule. However it will probably stop making Packards for a year, wait until 1958, when it can develop an interchangeable body shell with Studebaker along the lines of its Packard Predictor dream car. Another possibility: that West Germany's Daimler-Benz will come in on the agreement, use Studebaker's dealer setup to distribute Mercedes cars and trucks in the U.S. Eventually...
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...