The appointment of U Thant of Burma as the U.N.'s Acting Secretary General -- at this writing, the choice appears to be certain -- offers further proof that in politics it is more important to have no influential enemies than to have influential friends.

With the neutralists maintaining pressure for one of their own to succeed Mr. Hammarskjold, U Thant emerged as the only possible candidate unlikely to be waylaid by a veto.

U Thant of course, will hold office until the spring of 1963, when Mr. Hammarskjold's term would have come to an end.

the West may or not remain satisfied with the kind of neutralism that U Thant represents.

If Af are the projections associated with the primary decomposition of T, then each Af is a polynomial in T, and accordingly if a linear operator U commutes with T then U commutes with each of the Af, i.e., each subspace Af is invariant under U.

Near Q, both curves can be represented by analytic functions of U.

In a neighborhood of Q the difference between these functions is also a single-valued, analytic function of U.

The restrained gyro-stabilized platform with reasonable response characteristics operates with an approximate equation of motion, neglecting transient effects, as follows: Af where U is a torque applied about the output axis of the controlling gyro.

Lincoln's assassination was the first assassination of a U. S. president and sent the nation into mourning.

Lincoln has been consistently ranked by scholars and the public as one of the three greatest U. S. presidents.

In 1846, Lincoln was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, where he served one two-year term.

Lincoln also supported the Wilmot Proviso, which, if it had been adopted, would have banned slavery in any U. S. territory won from Mexico.

Lincoln disapproved of slavery, and the spread of slavery to new U. S. territory in the west.

Douglas ' provision, which Lincoln opposed, specified settlers had the right to determine locally whether to allow slavery in new U. S. territory, rather than have such a decision restricted by the national Congress.

In late 1854, Lincoln ran as a Whig for the U. S. Senate seat from Illinois.

After the state Republican party convention nominated him for the U. S. Senate in 1858, Lincoln delivered his House Divided Speech, drawing on: " A house divided against itself cannot stand.

The stage was then set for the campaign for statewide election of the Illinois legislature which would, in turn, select Lincoln or Douglas as its U. S. senator.

Douglas said that Lincoln was defying the authority of the U. S. Supreme Court and the Dred Scott decision.

The U. S. Navy illegally intercepted a British merchant ship the Trent on the high seas and seized two Confederate envoys ; Britain protested vehemently while the U. S. cheered.

He argued before and during his election that the eventual extinction of slavery would result from preventing its expansion into new U. S. territory.

Anthropologists ' involvement with the U. S. government, in particular, has caused bitter controversy within the discipline.

Austin is the capital of the U. S. state of Texas.

The world's smallest known vertebrate, Paedophryne amauensis, sitting on a Dime ( United States coin ) | U. S. dime, 17. 91mm, for scale

The land went through several administrative changes before becoming an organized ( or incorporated ) territory on May 11, 1912, and the 49th state of the U. S. on January 3, 1959.

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* U. S. House Committee on Agriculture – Glossary of agricultural terms, programs and laws

* Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, U. S. law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability

* Anti-Deficiency Act, U. S. law that prohibits the federal government from incurring debts not authorized by Congress

In the U. S. federal court system, criminal defendants must file a notice of appeal within 10 days of the entry of either the judgment or the order being appealed, or the right to appeal is forfeited.

Many U. S. jurisdictions title their appellate court a court of appeal or court of appeals.

At that time, the ENIAC was considered to be the first computer in the modern sense, but in 1973 a U. S. District Court invalidated the ENIAC patent and concluded that the ENIAC inventors had derived the subject matter of the electronic digital computer from Atanasoff ( see Patent dispute ).

In contrast, in non-common-law countries, and jurisdictions with very weak respect for precedent ( example, the U. S. Patent Office ), fine questions of law are redetermined anew each time they arise, making consistency and prediction more difficult, and procedures far more protracted than necessary because parties cannot rely on written statements of law as reliable guides.

* U. S. Patent 2, 948, 718, August 1960

In 1877, Ernest Solvay was granted a U. S. Patent for a tray column for ammonia distillation and the same and subsequent years saw developments of this theme for oil and spirits.

* U. S. Patent 1, 336, 378: " Antenna with Distributed Positive Resistance "

* U. S. Patent 1, 424, 065: " Signaling System "

He sold the rights to Wham-O on January 23, 1957 ( his 37th birthday ), and the following year, Morrison was awarded U. S. Design Patent D183, 626 for his flying disc.

( U. S. Patent 3, 359, 678 ).

About 30 years later American engineer and inventor Laurens Hammond filed U. S. Patent 1, 956, 350 for a new type of " electrical musical instrument " that could recreate a pipe organ-type sound.

There is a U. S. Patent 6150396 for the use of duloxetine for treatment of interstitial cystitis although one study found positive outcomes in only a small proportion of cases.

* 1918 Gillett: U. S. Patent to use X-rays for the preservation of food

In December 1973 he was granted a U. S. Patent for a table he designed.

U. S. Patent 3, 163, 936

He had several patents issued in his name from the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office, all of which involve a method of tensioning drum heads, in June 2002 – November 2004.

0356815 for the term " Mimeograph " in the U. S. Patent Office.

In 1904, The U. S. Patent Office reversed its decision, awarding Marconi a patent for the invention of radio, possibly influenced by Marconi's financial backers in the States, who included Thomas Edison and Andrew Carnegie.

Van C. Smith was the son of Roswell Smith, a prominent lawyer in Lafayette, Indiana, and Annie Ellsworth, daughter of U. S. Patent Commissioner Henry Leavitt Ellsworth.

Annie Ellsworth chose these words from the Bible ( Numbers 23: 23 ); her father, U. S. Patent Commissioner Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, had championed Morse's invention and secured early funding for it.

Carnegie Mellon, Capability Maturity Model, CMM, CMMI, Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method, ATAM, and CERT are registered in the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office by Carnegie Mellon University.

Staind was unsuccessful in their suit prompting Stainbrook to pursue litigation against the band for including false statements in their application with the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Throughout its early years, much emphasis was placed on reports of what was going on at the U. S. Patent Office.

His first patent was for the electric vote recorder, ( U. S. Patent 90, 646 ), which was granted on June 1, 1869.

U. S. Patent # 223898: Electric-Lamp.

A patent for such a device was issued to New York restaurateur Juvenico Maldonado in 1950, based on his patent filing of 1947 ( U. S. Patent No. 2, 506, 305 ).< ref >

* 28 December 1871 — Antonio Meucci files patent caveat No. 3335 in the U. S. Patent Office titled " Sound Telegraph ", describing communication of voice between two people by wire.