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.

Irina Krush ( born December 24, 1983 ) is an American chess player who has won the U. S. Women's Chess Championship in 1998, 2007, 2010, and 2012.

* Nemo Gaines, U. S. Naval officer and Major League Baseball player

Major League Baseball player Moe Berg, a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School, was recruited by Nelson Rockefeller ( the coordinator of the U. S. Office of Inter-American Affairs ) and then by the OSS in 1943 because of his language skills.

* Riggs Stephenson ( 1898 – 1985 ), U. S. baseball player

Famous athletes include Baseball Hall of Fame members Roger Bresnahan and Addie Joss, U. S. boxing Olympian Devin Vargas, 2012 Olympic silver medalist Erik Kynard ( Track & Field, high jump ), professional basketball player John Amaechi, retired NBA player Jim Jackson, and NBA Champions Chicago Bulls Dennis Hopson.

** Jim Bunning, American baseball player and U. S. Senator

** Jack Kemp, American football player and U. S. Vice Presidential candidate ( d. 2009 )

* May 8 – Ross Barnes, U. S. baseball player ( d. 1915 )

* April 22 – Pat Tillman, American football player and U. S. Army Ranger ( b. 1976 )

In 1969, aided by Robert W. Kendler, the president-founder of the U. S. Handball Association ( USHA ), the International Racquetball Association ( IRA ) was founded using the name coined by Bob McInerney, a professional tennis player.

* Steve Kerr, former American professional basketball player who, according to Ali G, works on " TMT "; Kerr is a basketball analyst with U. S. cable network TNT.

Set in 2794, Marathon places the player as a security officer aboard an enormous human starship called the U. E. S. C.

In 1973, Snead became the oldest player to make a cut in a U. S. Open at age 61.

* Notable recent graduates of the college include: former Missouri Senator Jim Talent, Nevada Senator Chic Hecht, and former Nebraska Congressman Hal Daub ; George Zimmer, founder of Men's Wearhouse ; Avram Glazer, chairman of Manchester United ; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Ken Cooper and Hank Klibanoff ; Jon Feltheimer, CEO of Lionsgate films ; actors Peter Sarsgaard ( Boys Don't Cry, An Education, Flight Plan ) and Harold Ramis ( Ghostbusters, Caddyshack ); U. S. Ambassador Sam Fox ; baseball player Dal Maxvill ; and science-show host Deanne Bell ( Design Squad ).

He attended Archbishop Moeller High School, where he was the U. S high school baseball player of the year in 1987.

Philips also released the Norelco Carry-Corder 150 recorder / player in the U. S. in November 1964.

It is clear that each U. S. government agency which had a relationship with Noriega turned a blind eye to his corruption and drug dealing, even as he was emerging as a key player on behalf of the Medellín Cartel ( a member of which was notorious Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar ).

* Charles Jones ( basketball, born 1957 ) known as " Gadget " Jones, U. S. basketball player with Washington Bullets ( 1985 – 93 ) and Houston Rockets

* Charles Jones ( basketball, born 1962 ), U. S. basketball player whose teams included Phoenix Suns, Portland Trail Blazers and Washington Bullets ( 1988 – 89 )

* Charles Jones ( basketball, born 1975 ), U. S. basketball player with Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Clippers

Radner was a featured player on the National Lampoon Radio Hour, a comedy program syndicated to some 600 U. S. radio stations from 1974 to 1975.

* Victoria " Vicky " Bullett, former professional women's basketball player, member of the 1988 and 1992 U. S. Olympic Teams that won gold and bronze medals respectively.

Kenny Rollins, an American basketball player who was a member of the University of Kentucky's " Fab Five " who won the 1948 NCAA Championship, the 1948 Gold Medal Winning U. S. Olympic Team, and the NBA's Chicago Stags and Boston Celtics.

The Hausa, also of West Africa, classify drummers into those who beat drums and those who beat ( pluck ) strings ( the other 4 player classes are blowers, singers, acclaimers, and talkers ), as reported by Ames and King in Glossary of Hausa Music and its Social Contexts, 1971, Northwestern U. Press.