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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.

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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.
Alaska has a longer coastline than all the other U. S. states combined .< ref >
* 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.

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1940s advertisement specifically targeting African Americans, A young Ron Brown ( U. S. politician ) | Ron Brown is the boy reaching for a bottle
" In February 1994, Heart Management – which comprised the Herberts together with financier Chic Murphy – placed an advertisement in The Stage trade magazine asking " WANTED: R. U. 18 – 23 with the ability to sing / dance?
During the 1980 U. S. presidential campaign, the Citizens Party candidate Barry Commoner ran a radio advertisement that began with an actor exclaiming: " Bullshit!
In July 2007, one month after the release of Michael Moore's film Sicko, Rudy Giuliani, the front-runner for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, attacked the health care plans of Democratic presidential candidates as socialized medicine that was European and socialist, Giuliani claimed that he had a better chance of surviving prostate cancer in the U. S than he would have had in England and went on to repeat the claim in campaign speeches for three months before making them in a radio advertisement.
Initially a flop in the UK, it first became a hit in the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, reaching No. 4 after being featured on a Pepe Jeans advertisement ; it repeated the feat in the UK Singles Chart some months later.
Foolish advertisement of his position in Cuba by the Spanish government of that island endangered a plan by Cervera to isolate the U. S. fleet in sections, and doomed his command to destruction.
" In a 2006 New York Times advertisement CNI wrote " there is strong evidence that irrational concern for Israel by U. S. policymakers continues to be a prime motivation for our military adventures.
Either way, King's record went to # 1 on the R & B charts and was a Top Ten hit on the U. S. charts twice — in its original release in 1961, when it peaked at # 4, and a 1986 re-release coinciding with its use as the theme song for the movie of the same name following its appearance in the film, when it peaked at # 9, and also in an advertisement for Levi Jeans.
In 2006, Francis Reader sang a cover of the The Beatles ' " Got To Get You Into My Life ", which was featured in an advertisement campaign for the U. S. telecommunications company Qwest Communications.
During the broadcast, which ran opposite a similar advertisement from Carter on another network, LaRouche said that Carter would have the U. S " irreversibly committed to nuclear war by no later than November of 1977 " if elected.
The most serious incident involving a fictional advertisement in a magazine caused a lawsuit which reached all the way to the U. S. Supreme Court, when Hustler Magazine ran a parody of a liquor ad which would ask people about their " first time.
Some time after news of the hoax became widespread, actor Bryan Cranston, then a lead in the U. S. television sitcom Malcolm in the Middle, took out a print advertisement in entertainment trade papers recommending his work to Emmy Awards voters.
Title 18 of the U. S. Code, as revised in January 1971, prohibits use of the likeness of the Great Seal or any facsimile in " any advertisement, circular, book, pamphlet, or other publication, play, motion picture, telecast, or other production " for the purpose of conveying a false impression of sponsorship or approval by the U. S. Government under threat of a fine of not more than $ 250 or imprisonment of not more than six months, or both.
A Diet Pepsi advertisement in the same year featured Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman to run for vice-president in the U. S. When the feature film Top Gun was released on home video cassette in 1987, it was promoted via television advertisements – consisting of a Top Gun pilot flying upside down while holding a can of Diet Pepsi – which were paid for by Pepsi.
A public service announcement or PSA is a non-commercial " advertisement "— typically on U. S. or Canadian radio or television, broadcast for the public good.
A 1942 advertisement claims that 70 % of all radio towers in the U. S. were built by Blaw-Knox.
After Project Runway, Saun was costume designer for the hit WB series What I Like About You, starring Amanda Bynes and Jennie Garth, designed for the America ’ s Next Top Model Campaign 5 advertisement, and designed costumes for various TV series and pilots, such as UPN ’ s R U the Girl, the ABC sitcom Notes from the Underbelly and MTV's Celebrity Rap Superstar.
Evinrude placed an advertisement in a motor magazine to introduce his motor, drawing so many inquiries from U. S. and overseas readers that he decided to try large-scale production.
The North American versions of the advertisement use the appropriate one-cent coin ( a Lincoln cent in the U. S., a 1953 – 1964 one cent coin in Canada ).

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