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...statistics also add impact to the parting words of James E. Webb, who resigned unexpectedly last week as head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. "We are going to be in second position for some time to come," said Webb in a speech that was generally regarded as a slap at both the Administration and Congress, which have made crippling cuts in NASA's budgets...
...said. "I thought that we had reached parity with the Russians about two and a half years ago." But the Soviets are proceeding "without letup" while the U.S. effort will have shrunk by mid-1969 to half what it was in the middle 1960s. As a result, Webb predicted, the Russians "will be flying more flights and developing a capability in space at a much more rapid rate than we will for the next several years...
ADAM 12 (NBC, 7:30-8 p.m.). Jack Webb, of Dragnet fame, puts in another plug for the Los Angeles Police Department as producer of a series about two uniformed cops. Martin Milner and Kent McCord are the stars. Premiere...
Stuck with Goldfinger. Buyers of the less expensive models seemed even more excited than those in the high-priced market. Mrs. William Appleton of Newton, Mass., for instance, was so thrilled about owning a 1933 Rolls-Royce coupe with custom coachwork by Freestone and Webb that right after the sale she couldn't remember how much she had bid ($5,400). John and Elizabeth Harriet took a chance on a tiller-steered 1907 Sears Runabout, bid in for $850, only afterward discovered that their antique had been found under a haystack ten miles from their home...
...Clothes these days demand something bigger than a blob," says society's favorite jewelry designer, David Webb. So he turns out 18-carat-gold chain belts, with pieces molded to resemble nuggets, worked into scrolls or encrusted with real emeralds, and made to double as necklaces. To draw attention to the newly bared midriffs, Costume Jeweler Leo Kepler has designed a lacy, see-through belt consisting of four widely spaced strands of gold. "If you want to be nice, you wear it at the waist," advises Kepler. "If you want to be naughty, you rest it on your hips...