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.

" Ballad of the Green Berets " is a patriotic song in the ballad style about the Green Berets, an elite special force in the U. S. Army.

* Ernest Green ( U. S. Assistant Secretary of Labor )

The Greens founded the first international chapter of a German political party in the U. S. on April 13, 2008 at the Goethe-Institut in Washington D. C. Its main goal is " to provide a platform for politically active and green-oriented German citizens, in and beyond Washington D. C., to discuss and actively participate in German Green politics.

The Conference Center & Hotel is LEED-certified Gold by the U. S. Green Building Council, and is the only full-service, upscale hotel in Fairfax and near George Mason University.

Two rural-style comedians, already well known in their native Canada, gained their first major U. S. exposure — Gordie Tapp and Don Harron ( whose KORN Radio character, newscaster Charlie Farquharson, had been a fixture of Canadian television since 1952 and later appeared on The Red Green Show ).

Modern May Day ceremonies in the U. S. vary greatly from region to region and many unite both the holiday's " Green Root " ( pagan ) and " Red Root " ( labor ) traditions.

That same year, Green Day, which had gone through a relatively fallow period commercially, took American Idiot to number one on both the U. S. and UK charts ; the band matched the feat five years later with 21st Century Breakdown.

Due to the efforts of Merrill Swan, W6AEE, of the " The RTTY Society of Southern California " publisher of RTTY and Wayne Green, W2NSD, of CQ Magazine, Amateur Radio operators successfully petitioned the U. S. Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) to amend Part 12 of the Regulations, which was effective on February 20, 1953.

Among the tracks on The Paul Simon Songbook that were rerecorded ( some with electric backing ) for Sound of Silence were " I Am a Rock " ( which as a single reached U. S. No. 3 in the summer of 1966 ), " Leaves That Are Green ", " April Come She Will ", " A Most Peculiar Man ", and " Kathy's Song ".

The compromise agreement subsequently collapsed and two Green Party organizations have co-existed in the United States since the mid-1990s, now operating independently as The Green Party USA and the U. S. Green Party.

Malik Rahim, former Black Panther Party activist, ran for the U. S. Congress in 2008 with the Green Party.

A related improvement is rubber isolation between the wheel disc and the rim, as used on Boston ( Massachusetts, U. S .) Green Line 3400 and 3600 series cars.

In the U. S., third parties include older ones such as the Libertarian Party and the Green Party and newer ones such as the Pirate Party.

* Red, White, and Green: Transforming U. S. Biofuels

** In London at the Wood Green Empire, Chung Ling Soo ( William E Robinson, U. S .- born magician ) dies during his trick where he is supposed to " catch " two separate bullets – but one of them perforates his lung.

For instance, the use of boundary layer wind tunnel modeling can be used as a credit for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design ( LEED ) certification through the U. S. Green Building Council.

The Vermont Army version of the Green Mountain Boys faded away after Vermont joined the United States as the 14th U. S. state in 1791, although the Green Mountain Boys mustered for the War of 1812, The Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and following World War I as the Vermont National Guard.

Under propositions A and AA, a new water reclamation facility is also being planned, and the new facilities will meet rigorous Silver-level guidelines set by the U. S. Green Building Council for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.

In the U. S. submarine fleet, an adhesive cloth tape is called " EB Green ," as the duct tape used by Electric Boat was green.

* Green, Matthew N. The Speaker of the House: A Study of Leadership ( Yale University Press ; 2010 ) 292 pages ; Examines partisan pressures and other factors that shaped the leadership of the speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives ; focuses on the period since 1940.