Word: whiz
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...seems better qualified than some of the earlier choices. A Naval Academy graduate (second in the class of 1956) and a former submarine officer, he was also a Rhodes scholar who studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford. Later he became one of Robert McNamara's whiz kids and rose to the rank of lieutenant commander before he left the Navy in 1967 and joined the center...
...aspiration. Redolent of charcoal cookouts, their vocabularies an engaging mix of space jargon and "gee whiz," the space explorers gave back to Middle America a victory of its own values. It was little noted, except in Middle America where such things still matter, that among Neil Armstrong's extraterrestrial baggage was a special badge of his college fraternity, Phi Delta Theta. He used it symbolically to establish Moon Alpha Chapter...