Pro Football Hall of Fame at Canton, Ohio, were announced. At a launch guidance and control coordination meeting on January 29 and 30, Aerospace described three Titan II development flight failures that had been caused by problems in the General Electrical Mod III airborne radio guidance system. Although these failures did not appear to be the result of inherent design faults that might react on the Gemini program, Aerospace felt that a tighter quality assurance program was needed: "GE has a poor MOD III (G) quality control program, basically poor workmanship." Born: Octavian Teodorescu, Romanian rock musician and composer who performs under the stage name "Octave"; in Bucharest Died: Robert Frost, 88, popular American poet and four-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lee "Specs" Meadows, 68, American MLB baseball pitcher who led the National League in wins in 1926 and who was one of the first players to wear glasses while playing January 30, 1963 (Wednesday) The U.S. State Department took the unusual step of issuing a press release critical of one of America's closest allies, in rebuttal to the speech by Canadian Prime Minister Diefenbaker about his nation's Canadian nuclear policy. Responding to Diefenbaker's January 25 statement that the two nations had been negotiating for "two to three months or more", the U.S. statement said that "the Canadian Government has not as yet proposed any arrangement sufficiently practical to contribute effectively to North American defense". Diefenbaker accused the U.S. of interfering with Canada's domestic affairs and temporarily recalled the Canadian ambassador from Washington. U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk would issue an apology two days later for the tone of the comments, which The New York Times described as "ill-considered and unusually blunt". Gemini Project Office asked NASA Headquarters for authorization to use preflight automatic checkout equipment for Project Gemini. (NASA initially referred to preflight automatic checkout equipment by the acronym "PACE", but the use of the acronym would subsequently be dropped at the insistence of a computer company claiming prior rights to the name.) The Mercury Program had been successful in everything except meeting schedules, in which lengthy checkout time was a major obstacle. Automatic checkout equipment could cut down the time required to test components in Gemini. After reviewing this request, George M. Low, Director of Spacecraft and Flight Missions, Office of Manned Space Flight, asked that four automatic checkout stations be provided for Project Gemini as quickly as