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An army built on brains
Marching in formation across campus was normal for an Army Specialized Training Program unit like this one at Brigham Young University.
Seventy years ago, the nation’s best and brightest marched off to college to learn how to lead a smarter fight
COURTESY THE BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES AT THE L. TOM PERRY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS IN THE HAROLD B. LEE LIBRARY
Lawmakers stand out for opposition to strike By Steve Terrell The New Mexican
There’s no mystery about what U.S. Sen. Tom Udall of New Mexico thinks about President Barack Obama’s push to take military action against Syria. Last week, as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he voted against a resolution authorizing the move against the regime of Syria’s President Bashar Assad. Obama has said Assad’s alleged use of chemical Tom Udall weapons against civilians — specifically, rockets loaded with nerve gas fired Aug. 21 on rebelcontrolled parts of the Damascus suburbs — warrants U.S. action. During the committee hearing, Steve Pearce Udall, a Democrat, stood up to top officials of the Democratic administration. At one point, he engaged in a heated exchange with Secretary of State John Kerry, who bristled at Udall’s charge that the administration had given up on trying to win United Nations support to attack Assad. And in an interview on NPR last week, Udall called the proposed action an “ill-advised, misguided decision to go to war,” and said, “I don’t think this is the time for us to get embroiled in the Syrian civil war, in what is looking like a widening conflict between Sunnis and Shias in the region.” In an email sent Saturday by his campaign organization, Udall said,
Paul Numerof proved his father was right. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the father advised his son to contribute to the war effort through math and science. Numerof, who worked on the Manhattan Project before becoming a pioneer in nuclear medicine, returned to Los Alamos in 2007 to visit the Bradbury Museum and its exhibit on the first atomic bombs. Numerof died in January. CLYDE MUELLER/THE NEW MEXICAN
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aul Numerof was on a break from college and working a job with his dad, an electrician, when suddenly the radio spit out stunning and awful news. Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor. The 19-year-old student and his father finished their job that Sunday, hopped in the car for home, and started talking as they had never talked before. Numerof, feeling the patriotism that in a matter of hours tugged at a whole generation, told his dad he planned to enlist. Slow down, cautioned his father, a Russian immigrant who had fought since age 12 to make a life in America, in Philadelphia. Almost 70 years after that conversation,
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Numerof still could quote his father: “Not everyone will carry a gun. You will contribute through your knowledge of math and science. The best thing you can do for your country is stay in school. When your government needs you, it will call.” U.S. war planners, too, were awakening at that moment to the reality that science and engineering might decide the war. Meantime, political leaders were under pressure from colleges to keep enrollments up, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration wanted a flow of educated workers to feed industries propping up the war effort. So, almost a year to the day after Pearl Harbor, military planners created the Army Specialized Training Program and asked 227 universities to turn soldiers into doctors, engineers and diplomats.
By Rob Dean
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Old-school entry takes top prize
In 2013, U.S. doubts about war — how to get into Syria, when to get out of Afghanistan — are as common as news at the top of the hour. Not so in 1941. Few Americans doubted the war against fascist aggressors. But highlevel officials of the federal government hotly debated how to run the war effort overseas
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By Phaedra Haywood The New Mexican
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The professional palates of the first-ever Santa Fe Green Chile Cheeseburger Smackdown kept it old school Saturday afternoon in the Railyard — from among the seven entrants, they awarded top prize to Realburger, a restaurant that has operated in various locations in Santa Fe since 1974. Realburger owner John Chavez, who purchased the eatery in 1985, said his awardwinning burger featured a hand-packed, fresh, never-frozen, grass-fed Angus beef patty on a buttered-corn-dusted Kaiser roll, topped with roasted Hatch green chile, pepper jack cheese and an avocado aioli. Chavez added that his restaurant — currently located on Cerrillos
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Seventy years ago this fall, Numerof and 150,000 of the nation’s best and brightest marched off to college instead of battle to be part of the new Army built on brains. Numerof’s father was right. The Army did have a use for a college-educated chemist.
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Andrew Cooper, executive chef at Rancho Encantado, serves a chile cheeseburger to Laura Bajune of Santa Fe during the Green Chile Cheeseburger Smackdown at the Railyard on Saturday. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
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Desfile de la Gente (Historical/Hysterical Parade) 1-3 p.m., marching and mariachi bands, floats, and past and present Fiesta royalty, downtown, visit santafefiesta. org for a route map.
Obituaries Manuel E. Herrera, 72, Aug. 27 Eduardo M. “Monty” Montoya, 93, Sept. 4 David Richard Sheedy, 88, Aug. 31
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Fiesta de Santa Fe on the Plaza
Today Partly sunny. High 84, low 58.
9:30 a.m.-9 p.m., food booths and concerts, visit santafefiesta. org for full schedule of events. More events in Calendar, A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo
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