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Richard Stetson Morse
Richard Stetson Morse
Pages 204-209
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Dick Morse died several years later, July 1, 198S, of a massive heart attack after playing tennis with friends in his usual mode of full speed ahead. He was born on August 19,1911, in Abington, Massachusetts, and therefore was seventy-six at the time of his death.
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to the development of new manufacturing techniques and new products. Among his successes were vacuum processes for powdered drugs, the coating of optical lenses, dehydrating food without sacrificing taste or vitamins, and refining metals without impurities.
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Defense Department's downgrading of many U.S. Army programs, in particular postponing development of the Nike Zeus and the awarding of almost all military space programs to the U.S.
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He was a trustee of the Aerospace Corporation and the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, a member of the corporation of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Boston Museum of Science, and a long-time board member of the Dresser Industries. His greatest hobby was sailing.
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