Although his facts were off by a measure, the Americans' two-man Gemini program was, as of late, noticeably and distressingly upstaging whatever grand spectacles [Sergei] Korolev had managed to bring about. He was getting trounced. Blottoed. Pummeled like the chump in a rigged boxing match.

You also need to remember that it's rare to find someone in a C-suite or on a board who knows how to get down and dirty with IT, who knows the difference between a firewall and a fire exit.

He liked the new archivists, docketers, typists, printers, stenographers, binders, and second division clerks. He accepted the system as he found it.

Yes, Billy was a foundling, a presumable bye-blow, and, evidently, no ignoble one.