continue as single manager of the Atlantic Missile Range and host agency at the Cape Canaveral launch area. NASA's Launch Operations Center would manage and serve as host agency at the Merritt Island Launch Area, north and west of existing DOD installations. DOD and NASA would each be responsible for their own logistics and administration in their respective areas. Specific mission functions - e.g., preparation, checkout, launch, test evaluation - would be performed by each agency in its own behalf, regardless of location. DOD retained certain fundamental range functions, including scheduling, flight safety, search and rescue operations, and downrange airlift and station operation. Died: Johannes Sejersted Bødtker, 83, Norwegian banker and patron of the arts Arthur Edward Moore, 86, Australian politician, Premier of Queensland 1929-1932 January 18, 1963 (Friday) The French automobile manufacturer Simca was taken over by the American automaker Chrysler, which purchased a controlling interest of the 18,000 employee company in order to increase its presence in Europe. Severe winter conditions in the Netherlands eliminated 9,225 of the 9,294 ice skating participants in the nation's annual "eleven city tour", the elfstedentocht. Only 69 people finished the round trip that starts and ends at Leeuwarden by way of Sneek, IJlst, Sloten, Stavoren, Hindeloopen, Workum, Bolsward, Harlingen, Franeker, and Dokkum Died: Hugh Gaitskell, 56, the leader of Britain's Labour Party, died of kidney failure caused by lupus erythematosus. Edward Titchmarsh, 63, British mathematician who contributed the Titchmarsh convolution theorem, the Titchmarsh theorem on Hilbert transform, the Titchmarsh–Kodaira formula on differential equations, and the Brun–Titchmarsh theorem Johnny Moyes, 70, Australian cricketer and radio commentator January 19, 1963 (Saturday) Hermine Braunsteiner, formerly a supervising warden at the Ravensbrück concentration camp, and known as "The Stomping Mare" because of her use of steel-studded jackboots to kick inmates, became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Acting on a tip from Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, The New York Times would expose her past in 1964. Her citizenship would be revoked in 1971, and in 1973 she would be extradited to West Germany for trial as a war criminal. In 1981, she would be sentenced to life imprisonment. Released after 15 years for health reasons (including, ironically, the amputation of her leg), she would die in 1999. Canadian radio station CKST (then known as CJJC) broadcast for the first time. Born: Martin Bashir, British journalist, in Wandsworth, South London Caron Wheeler, British soul singer, in