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...After failing a pop quiz on the Beatles, six Brazilian tourists were told to get back home by immigration officials at London's Heathrow Airport. The tourists said they were headed for a tribute to the Fab Four in Liverpool, but missed simple questions about the band; they were unable to identify Yoko Ono and claimed wrongly that Ringo Starr was dead. So officials refused entry. The tourists blamed their poor showing on fatigue, youth and a preference for Brazilian music...
They had first set foot in the U.S. only two days before. But their records--and their publicity--had preceded them: the Beatles, Britain's Fab Four, the sensation of Europe. Their single I Want to Hold Your Hand had just hit No. 1. That afternoon in Manhattan, hordes of fans--mostly adolescent, mostly female--surged in the street outside CBS's Studio 50, where the lads were rehearsing for their debut on the closest thing that era had to a national entertainment forum: Ed Sullivan's Sunday-night TV variety show. Later, a lucky few hundred of the faithful...
...being self-obsessed and 20; he, 34, was an icon right out of the solar chute. We giggled and ran from chasing fans and were amazed. Suddenly we went from being a carpenter, a TV actor and a movie star's kid to looking like three of the new "Fab Four"--George Lucas being John, and you can mix and match the rest...
THEY CAME TOGETHER Time has reduced the Fab Four to a dynamic duo, but the BEATLES still have a healthy output. A DVD to be released next month will include an hour of never-before-seen footage from a 1994 jam session with Paul, Ringo and George. Paul, the Beatle formerly known as the Cute One, has just announced his first tour in Britain in 10 years, and police in Australia have found two reels of Beatles tape stolen from the Abbey Road studios 35 years ago. The tape is believed to be from the White Album sessions. Maybe...
...problem is that in the past, this process was associated with, well, ugliness. But designers are now putting the fab in prefab. Two books out last year, Pre Fab and the Spanish publication Arquitectura Alternativa, celebrate entirely or partially prefabricated houses around the world. Many architects are adapting some of the systems builders use. Others are more fanciful. Computerized drawing and cutting methods enable designers to create the most uncommon houses they can dream up. And one Austrian designer claims his dwelling, right, can be put together on site in as little as two hours. --By Belinda Luscombe...