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...coal-black tribesmen, huddled in a kraal, watched in awe, a goat was slowly beaten to death and buried alongside a virgin ewe. After that ancient rite, supposedly strong magic against evil, an official representative of the Great White Queen Across the Waters pronounced a solemn curse against the Mau-Mau. The Mau-Mau (rhymes with yoyo) is a native secret society which has lately been worrying the British. London is afraid that the Mau-Mau might plunge Britain's East African empire into guerrilla war, and turn Kenya into another Malaya...
...MAU (Maximum Airport Utilization). The White method is something like the traffic system used in New York subways...
...basic device of MAU: radio transmitters which shoot thin "fans" of radio energy into the air. They are arranged in pairs so that their fans intersect at a predetermined altitude. Long lines of these intersections form tracks leading down to the airport. The pilot of an approaching plane "latches on" to the end of a track, 40 miles out. Then automatic instruments take over, keep him on the track of intersections until he is practically on the ground. Receiving sets spotted along the track flash lights in the control room, tell ground operators just where the plane...
...LAURA MAU (of Chinese descent...
...Shirley Temple. In Hide-Out, Lucky Wilson (Robert Montgomery) is an even better example of the new school ne'er-do-well. All that it requires to transform him from a night-club chiseler to gentleman farmer is a whiff of Dutchess County applejack and five reels of Mau reen O'Sullivan...