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.

Today, the town serves mainly as a bedroom community for those wishing to live near either Edwards Air Force Base or the U. S. Borax mine in Boron.

Under the Death Valley Days title, the program was sponsored by Pacific Coast Borax Company, which during the program's run changed its name to U. S. Borax Company following a merger.

The " 20-Mule Team Borax " consumer products division of U. S. Borax was eventually bought out by the Dial Corporation, which as of 2010 still manufactures and markets them.

Borax Consolidated, Ltd. v. City of Los Angeles, 29 U. S. 10, 56 S. Ct. 23, 80 L. Ed 9 ( 1935 ).

Major acquisitions following the Consolidated Zinc merger included U. S. Borax, a major producer of borax, bought in 1968, Kennecott Utah Copper and BP Australia's coal assets which were bought from British Petroleum in 1989 and a 70. 7 % interest in the New South Wales operations of Coal & Allied Industries also in 1989.

In 1958, a twenty-mule team made a symbolic haul out of the new pit at U. S. Borax, commemorating the transition from underground to open-pit mining.

Over most of its existence, U. S. Borax ( USB ) had made up the losses from the railroad's operations.

* Gerstley, California-named for James Gerstley, Smith's business partner ( and later U. S. Borax President from 1950-1961 )

Although the hot springs of the Sulphur Bank contained borax, the search led Veatch to nearby Borax Lake where the California Borax Company established the first commercial borax mining operation in the U. S. beginning in 1860 and ceasing in 1868.

Schwander died of natural causes in 1974, while Pera returned to the U. S. in 1975 and was put on probation.

From Comrade Semichastny's speech I learn that the government, ' would not put any obstacles in the way of my departure from the U. S. S. R .' For me this is impossible.

" Levy quotes Walter Tuchman: " hey asked us to stamp all our documents confidential ... We actually put a number on each one and locked them up in safes, because they were considered U. S. government classified.

Ambrose argues that Eisenhower, by not participating in the Geneva agreement, had kept the U. S out of Vietnam ; nevertheless, with the formation of SEATO, he had in the end put the U. S. back into the conflict.

The 1st United States Dragoons explored Iowa after the Black Hawk Purchase put the area under U. S. control.

In 1953 when the Agrarian Reform was put into practice, one of the largest U. S. companies, the United Fruit Company, had lost 250, 000 out of 350, 000 manzanas.

He sometimes dated his letters 200 years before the current date, which would have put the writing back in U. S. colonial times, before the American Revolution ( a war which offended his Anglophilia ).

After the war, Rear-Admiral Michael Musmanno, a U. S. naval officer and judge, published an account apparently based on eye-witness testimony: " At about 8: 15 pm, Goebbels arose from the table, put on his hat, coat and gloves and, taking his wife's arm, went upstairs to the garden.

* 1961 – Apollo program: U. S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a " man on the Moon " before the end of the decade.

The report further claimed that " reactionary imperialist elements throughout the world, particularly in the U. S. A., in Britain and France, had put particular hope on Germany and Japan, primarily on Hitlerite Germany — first as a force most capable of striking a blow at the Soviet Union.

After the Government of the German Reich and the Government of the U. S. S. R. have, by means of the treaty signed today, definitively settled the problems arising from the collapse of the Polish state and have thereby created a sure foundation for a lasting peace in the region, they mutually express their conviction that it would serve the true interest of all peoples to put an end to the state of war existing at present between Germany on the one side and England and France on the other.

The first of many such conflicts was known as the Watermelon War of 1856, where U. S. soldiers mistreated locals causing large-scale race riots that U. S. Marines eventually put down.

When the U. S. Attorney decides to indict someone under RICO, he or she has the option of seeking a pre-trial restraining order or injunction to temporarily seize a defendant's assets and prevent the transfer of potentially forfeitable property, as well as require the defendant to put up a performance bond.

A marked change in U. S .- Saudi relations occurred, as Abdullah sought to put distance between his policies and the unpopular pro-Western policies of King Fahd.

Mysterious men comprising a shadow element within the U. S. government, known as " The Syndicate ", are the major villains in the series ; late in the series it is revealed that The Syndicate acts as the only liaison between mankind and a group of extraterrestrials that intends to put an end to human life as we know it.

Reed set out to put into practical effect his dictum that " The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch "; this was accomplished by carefully studying the existing procedures of the U. S. House, most dating to the original designs written by Thomas Jefferson.

In closed syllables, it commonly represents (" short U " as in duck ) or ( as in put ).

* September 12 – President John F. Kennedy, at a speech at Rice University, reaffirms that the U. S. will put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.

In 1881 an influential group of New Yorkers led by U. S. Civil War veteran Captain William Fowler came together to put an end to this and other superstitions.

The U. S. Treasury was put on a strict hard-money standard, doing business only in gold or silver coin as part of the Independent Treasury Act of 1848, which legally separated the accounts of the Federal Government from the banking system.

While his announcement of the government's plan to put a man on the moon drew all of the attention, in the same speech he announced his intention to spend over $ 100 million to strengthen U. S. special operations forces and expand American capabilities in unconventional warfare.

* Afghanistan – illegal ( death penalty, although the U. S. and other coalition members have put pressure that has prevented recent executions )

Almost immediately after his election, Nixon directed CIA and U. S. State Department officials to " put pressure " on the Allende government.