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...arms-for-hostages deals with Iran were kept secret from Congress until October 1986, when "the roof caved in on this house of cards" with public disclosures about the Iran-Contra affair, Keker said...
...under the glare of investigations, Beebe's roof began to cave in. He was convicted in 1985 of defrauding the Small Business Administration on a loan it made to finance a nursing home from which Beebe allegedly profited. Beebe was sentenced to perform community service, while some of his associates were acquitted. Two years later, the Government accused him of fraud for making loans to a quarter-horse breeder with whom Beebe allegedly held an interest in a tax-shelter scheme. After the 1987 mistrial, Beebe pleaded guilty last year to the two fraud counts...
...Like most old barns, it contained stalls for livestock and horses -- the preindustrial tractors of agriculture -- and a cavernous hayloft for storing their fuel. Over time, the outmoded barn weathered and withered. But during the past 15 years, to avoid new construction costs, the Manchesters have braced the old roof, installed modern seed-conditioning machinery inside, applied a coat of white paint and given the barn a new working life...
...most barn restorations. "Bigger is the whole concept," says Michigan renovation expert David Ciolek, who has rehabbed hundreds of barns around the country. Ciolek creates higher, longer open spaces by a process called trussing. First he rearranges the old post-and-beam construction, then transfers the weight of the roof and hayloft to the outside walls by means of triangular wooden supports. Says Illinois livestock farmer Janis King, who had Ciolek fix up an 1870 barn: "Unless lightning strikes, the barn will be here another 100 years...
...know, George, I feel that in a small way we're doing something important, satisfying a fundamental urge. It's deep in the race for a man to want his own roof and walls and fireplace. And we're helping him get these things...