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.

As stated in the U. S. Code, the Commandant shall preside over the Headquarters, Marine Corps, transmit the plans and recommendations of the Headquarters, Marine Corps, to the Secretary and advise the Secretary with regard to such plans and recommendations, after approval of the plans or recommendations of the Headquarters, Marine Corps, by the Secretary, act as the agent of the Secretary in carrying them into effect, exercise supervision, consistent with the authority assigned to commanders of unified or specified combatant commands under chapter 6 of this title, over such of the members and organizations of the Marine Corps and the Navy as the Secretary determines, perform the duties prescribed for him by section 171 of this title and other provisions of law and perform such other military duties, not otherwise assigned by law, as are assigned to him by the President, the Secretary of Defense, or the Secretary of the Navy.

In 2007, the Masters of Foxhounds Association of North America listed 171 registered packs in the U. S. and Canada.

According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 5, 896 square miles ( 15, 271 km² ), of which 5, 858 square miles ( 15, 171 km² ) is land and 38 square miles ( 100 km² ) ( 0. 65 %) is water.

As of the 2010 U. S. Census, the county had a population of 2, 171, the smallest in the state in population and total area.

The county population was 27, 171 at U. S. Census 2000.

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Lonsdale is located on State Highway 171, south of U. S. Route 70.

The town is crossed by Interstate 395, U. S. Route 44, Connecticut Route 12, Connecticut Route 21 and Connecticut Route 171.

Moss Bluff is intersected by U. S. Highway 171 and Louisiana Highway 378.

Minnesota Highway 171, U. S. Highway 75, 8th Street, and Pacific Avenue are four of the main routes in the community.

In several states, legislatures enacted laws to require margarine manufacturers to add pink colorings to make the product look unpalatable, but the Supreme Court struck down New Hampshire's law and overruled these measures in Collins v. New Hampshire, 171 U. S. 30 ( 1898 ).

alt = A set of three signs reading U. S. Route 130 south left, left turn right turn only, and Route 171 north rightIn the 1953 renumbering, US 130 replaced Route 44 and parts of Route 45 and Route 25, as well as the short Route 25M into New Brunswick.

When the U. S. Highway System was designated in 1926, the Jefferson Highway was split into four U. S. Highways in Louisiana: US 61 from New Orleans to Baton Rouge ( before it was re-routed onto the Airline Highway ), US 71 from Baton Rouge to Clarence, US 171 from Mansfield to Shreveport, and US 80 from Shreveport west into Texas.

Route 171 begins at an intersection with U. S. Route 130 and U. S. Route 1 in the town of North Brunswick.

Route 25 was aligned on the entire alignment of Route 171, but by 1930, the route was realigned onto U. S. Route 1.

The alignment of U. S. Route 130 remained along the alignment of Route 171 for several years, and by 1940, the northern alignment of Route 171 was designated as Route 25M.

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The other contenders were Democrats Jim Wright, a congressman from Fort Worth and a future U. S. House Speaker, 171, 328 ( 16. 2 percent ), state Attorney General Will Wilson ( who later became a Republican and served in the Nixon Justice Department ), 121, 961 ( 11. 5 percent ), former state representative and liberal lawyer Maury Maverick, Jr., of San Antonio, 104, 922 ( 9. 9 percent ), and then state Senator ( and future Congressman ) Henry B. Gonzalez, also of San Antonio, 97, 659 ( 9. 2 percent ).

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U. S. Highway 171 is a north – south United States highway.