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.

From August 1998 to February 2000, General Myers was Commander in Chief of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U. S. Space Command ; Commander of the Air Force Space Command ; and Department of Defense manager of the space transportation system contingency support at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado.

Substantial test and evaluation programs have been carried out in the past decade in speech recognition systems applications in helicopters, notably by the U. S. Army Avionics Research and Development Activity ( AVRADA ) and by the Royal Aerospace Establishment ( RAE ) in the UK.

These FFRDCs include the RAND Corporation, the MITRE Corporation, the Institute for Defense Analyses, the Aerospace Corporation, the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and other organizations supporting various departments within the U. S. Government.

Currently, only twenty-four nations have spaceflight technology: Russia ( Russian Federal Space Agency ), the United States ( NASA, the US Air Force, SpaceX ( a U. S private aerospace company )), the member states of the European Space Agency, the People's Republic of China ( China National Space Administration ), Japan ( Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ), and India ( Indian Space Research Organisation ).

* Aerospace Defense Command of the U. S. Air Force

In June 1997 British Aerospace Defence Managing Director John Weston commented " Europe ... is supporting three times the number of contractors on less than half the budget of the U. S .".

U. S. Army United States Army Parachute Team | Golden Knights Parachute Team at the 2007 " Aerospace and Arizona Days " air show, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.

Santa Fe Springs is home to Egge Machine Company, supplier of Cadillac engine parts for custom cars and hot rods and also is home to U. S. Aerospace, a publicly traded aerospace and defense contractor for the USDoD, USAF, Lockheed Martin Corporation, The Boeing Company, L-3 Communications Holdings, the Middle River Aircraft Systems subsidiary of General Electric Company, and other aircraft manufacturers, aerospace companies, and defense contractors.

Clark was a member of the Aerospace Medical Association and the Society of U. S. Naval Flight Surgeons.

Undertaken by Israel Aerospace Industries ( IAI ) and Boeing, it is overseen by the Israeli Ministry of Defense's " Homa " (,, " rampart ") administration and the U. S. Missile Defense Agency.

The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a leading 20th century U. S. producer of military and civilian aircraft.

On March 24, 1994, the two sponsors announced formation of Globalstar LP, a limited partnership established in the U. S., with financial participation from eight other companies, including Alcatel, AirTouch, Deutsche Aerospace, Hyundai and Vodafone.

A group led by BAe, comprising Alenia Difesa, GEC-Marconi, and Saab Dynamics, proposed the S225XR ; Matra proposed a derivative of MICA, although the long-planned merger of BAe Dynamics and Matra's missile division was expected to lead to the removal of this proposal ; Daimler-Benz Aerospace and Bayern-Chemie proposed the Advanced Air-to-Air Missile ( A3M ); and Hughes, supported by the U. S. Government, proposed an AMRAAM derivative based on upgrade work being carried out.

In the 2012 " Aerospace / Aeronautical / Astronautical " section for Best Engineering Schools, described by U. S. News & World Report as " Students in these master's engineering programs learn the science of flight, both for aircraft and spacecraft vehicles.

He later attended the U. S. Air Force Aerospace Research Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, California.

This was the first dedicated Spacelab mission under the direction of the German Aerospace Research Establishment ( DFVLR ) and the first U. S. mission in which payload control was transferred to a foreign country ( German Space Operations Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany ).

Although the U. S. Air Force had already inactivated Aerospace Defense Command, the continental U. S. region, along with Alaskan and Canadian regions provided an improved command and operational system for North American air defense.

See also Aerospace Walk of Honor-downtown Lancaster sidewalk tribute to the U. S. Air Force flight test community.

From 1963 to 1965, he was first a student and later an instructor at the U. S. Air Force Aerospace Research Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, California.

* August 1-The North American Aerospace Defense Command ( NORAD ) is formed to co-ordinate U. S. and Canadian air defense.

He joined the U. S. Navy in 1986, receiving training as a flight surgeon at the Naval Aerospace Medical Institute at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida.

Linenger is a member of the Alumni Associations of the U. S. Naval Academy, University of Southern California, Wayne State University School of Medicine, and University of North Carolina, the Association of Naval Aviation, the U. S. Navy Flight Surgeons Association, the Aerospace Medicine Association, the American Medical Association, the American College of Preventive Medicine, the Society of U. S. Navy Preventive Medicine Officers, and the American College of Sports Medicine.