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.

* 1925 – Ruth Slenczynska, U. S. pianist

** Ernst Hanfstängl, German-born pianist and U. S. politician ( d. 1975 )

* Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler ( 1863 – 1927 ), Austrian-born U. S. pianist

The song was used in Tennessee politics by Lamar Alexander, a trained pianist, Governor of Tennessee and U. S. Senator, who performed the song for campaign events, including during his 1996 run for the Republican presidential nomination.

Among DuMont's minority programs were The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong, starring Asian American film actress Anna May Wong, the first U. S. television show to star an Asian American, and The Hazel Scott Show, starring pianist and singer Hazel Scott, the first U. S. network television series to be hosted by a black woman.

* November 21 – Hadda Brooks ( 86 ), U. S. jazz singer, pianist and composer

In time, he became an orchestra-leading pianist in his own right, as well as the author of a series of mystery novels, a presence in high society ( into which his mother had been born ), and a frequent entertainer ( as well as musical director for U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's inauguration ) at the White House and on television.

* Anthony Burger, U. S. pianist

He is the great-grandson of 19th-century meatpacking mogul Oscar Mayer and the grandson of the U. S. pianist and composer Edward Joseph Collins, as well as Michael Collins, liberator of Ireland.

* Roger Lord, internationally acclaimed concert pianist and Professor of Piano at the U de M, brother of Bernard Lord

The MacDowell Colony is an art colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, U. S. A., founded in 1907 by Marian MacDowell, pianist and wife of composer Edward MacDowell.

After touring both the U. S. and Japan with pianist George Shearing in 1963, Burton went on to play with saxophonist Stan Getz from 1964 to 1966.

Louis Horst ( born January 12, 1884 in Kansas City, Missouri, U. S .; died January 23, 1964 in New York City ) was a choreographer, composer, and pianist.

When founding member Rob Burger ( the trio's accordionist and pianist ) left the trio in late 2004, Mark Orton and Carla Kihlstedt replaced him with both Goldberg and Parkins, presenting a new, though closely related, ensemble — the Tin Hat Quartet — for two short concert tours in the U. S. in January and April 2005.

In 1999, U. S. radio welcomed Wright back when her 1997 duet with pianist Jim Brickman was released to radio.

* Ted Shapiro, U. S. popular music composer, pianist, and sheet music publisher

* Earl Hines ( 1903 – 1983 ), U. S. jazz pianist

Its earliest star performers included singers Ethel Waters, Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Mamie Smith, Minto Cato, and Adelaide Hall ; comedian Tim Moore with his Chicago Follies company ( which included his wife Gertie ); the Whitman Sisters and their Company ; musicians Fletcher Henderson, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake, Joe " King " Oliver, and Duke Ellington ; comics Sandy Burns, Salem Whitney Tutt, and Tom Fletcher ; future Paris sensation Josephine Baker ; songwriter and pianist Perry Bradford, the mime Johnny Hudgins ; dancers U. S. Thompson, Walter Batie, Earl " Snakehips " Tucker, and Valaida Snow ; comic monologuist Boots Hope ; and many others.

The Dins have performed for jazz vocalists Ella Fitzgerald and Bobby McFerrin, for members of the New York Voices, jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, actresses Julia Roberts, Sharon Stone, Jessica Lang, Kathie Lee Gifford and Kathleen Turner, comedian Jackie Mason, Maestro Keith Lockhart of the Boston Pops, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, Caroline Kennedy, former U. S. President Bill Clinton, as well as the Governor of Bermuda and the U. S. ambassadors to Australia, Germany, Greece, Nepal, Ireland, Morocco, Norway, Italy and Belgium.

In 1939, he became the first pianist to perform a recital on U. S. television.

Ajemian's career in contemporary music got its impetus from her Armenian heritage ; she became known as a contemporary pianist after performing the U. S. premiere of Aram Khachaturian's Piano Concerto, which she chose to play based on the fact that Khachaturian was Armenian.