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.

" In 1977 the Commodores scored a ballad hit with " Easy ", which became the group's biggest hit yet, reaching No. 4 in the U. S., followed by the funky favorite " Brick House ", also Top 5, both from their landmark album " The Commodores ", as was the utopian album favorite " Zoom ".

She played first board on the U. S. Women's team in the 38th Chess Olympiad, when the U. S. team scored a bronze medal.

The second movie was the most successful of the series, bringing in 8. 1 million viewers in the U. S. It scored an 86-date concert tour, and was on the top 10 tours of 2006 ; the tour broke a record at the Houston Rodeo that was set by Elvis Presley in 1973.

The following year, the group scored major hit singles with " Stoned Soul Picnic " ( U. S. # 3 ) and " Sweet Blindness " ( U. S. # 13 ) and received a gold record for their album Stoned Soul Picnic.

" Look on the Floor " became their first U. S. hit since 1992, when they scored with " Tripping on Your Love ".

Upon graduation, Zack was slated to go to Yale, having scored 1502 on the SAT, the highest of the gang ( despite his slacker reputation ) but he ultimately attended Cal U with Slater, Screech, and Kelly.

Mike Eruzione was the captain of the 1980 olympic team that beat Russia in the Miracle on Ice game, in which he scored the winning goal, allowing the U. S. team to go on to win the gold medal.

## Pilot, a 1970s band out of Scotland scored a major hit in the U. S., with " Magic " reaching # 5 on the charts.

In 2000, Fuel came back with their second album, Something Like Human, and scored a Top 40 hit in the U. S. with " Hemorrhage ( In My Hands )" which peaked at No. 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Simon scored another million-selling U. S. Gold single with the hit, " Jesse ", from that album.

On December 20, 2010, McEntire scored her 35th Billboard number one single in the U. S. with " Turn On the Radio ".

The group toured in support of the album, but without any promotion or marketing from the now-defunct label, they only scored minor hits such as " R U Ready " and " Gitty Up ".

Indeed, the Soviet P-39s scored the highest number of individual kills attributed to any U. S. fighter type.

Shortly afterwards Dallas and then staff producers Tim & Bob entered the studio with Monica to start writing and producing her debut Miss Thang which was eventually released in July 1995 and scored number thirty-six on the U. S. Billboard 200 and number seven on the Top R & B Albums chart.

Soviets in P-39s scored the highest individual kill totals of any pilot ever to fly a U. S. aircraft.

This new building won a " Award of Merit " from Canadian Architect magazine in 2003, received a Gold certification from the U. S. Green Building Council and scored 46 on the LEED points scale which was, at inauguration, the highest score ever obtained in Canada.

He was also a member of the victorious 1960 U. S. Eisenhower Trophy team, winning the unofficial individual title by 13 shots over teammate Deane Beman with a four-round score of 269, a record which still stands ; this score was 18 shots lower than Ben Hogan's earlier U. S. Open aggregate of 287 at the same site ( which had, however, been scored under much tougher conditions ).

By 1965, the group was forced to change its name to Chad Allan & the Expressions after a U. S. group called The Reflections had scored a hit with " Just Like Romeo & Juliet ".

They are the third and fourth of five kills scored by F-14s during the Tomcats career in U. S. Navy service.

It has scored highest among U. S. oil companies for investing in alternative energy sources and setting targets for reducing its own emissions and is the world's largest producer of geothermal energy, providing enough power for over 7 million homes.

The group scored a Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit in the U. S. with the single " Thank God I Found You ", a collaboration with Mariah Carey and Joe.

In 1984, Essex-born singer Alison Moyet scored a U. S. Top 40 hit with the Dozier-penned " Invisible.