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...doctored stories themselves had little effect. Councilmogul Al Vellucci, however, did sell his yacht upon reading about the Charles River parking lot. Balthazar Ali Khan called in to report his name was spelled Belshazzar. "Mene, mene, tekel upharsin," he warned...
...gone, a Camp Hill (Pa.) grandmother and Bible student, Mrs. Catherine E. Kreitzer, kept alive the suspense of The $64,000 Question. She got by the $8,000 question by naming in order the Aramaic words in the "handwriting on the wall" at Belshazzar's feast ("mene, mene, tekel, upharsin"). Mrs. Kreitzer will decide this week whether she will go for the $16,000 question...
...Mene, Mene, Tekel . . ." But Knowland's move came as no surprise to at least one Senator: Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson. No sooner had Knowland sat down than Johnson pulled from his desk drawer a prepared reply. The words McCarthy had used in describing the Watkins committee, said Johnson, would be "much more fittingly inscribed on the wall of a men's room." Bill Knowland flushed red and scowled furiously...
Chingery-rico-rico-day ekel tekel...
Meoe, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. Men find it hard to read the true meaning of most things, but the hardest of all to read is the handwriting on the wall-which becomes legible to everybody only when the walls begin to totter and collapse. In mid-January, 1941, under the impact of Nazi bombs, the walls were falling on all sides of the 221 Anglican prelates, priests and laymen who under the sponsorship of Dr. Temple, then Archbishop of York, huddled in greatcoats in the unheated rooms of Malvern College. It was not only British walls that were crashing. Under...