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...expert in Mayan Archaeology, Stuart has been a Junior Fellow in Pre-Columbian Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard's research library and collection in Washington, D.C., since he graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School last spring...
...weeks ago the telephone interrupted 18-year-old David Stuart, who was in his office deciphering pre-Columbian Mayan hieroglyphics. The caller, a representative of the MacArthur Foundation, told the Silver Spring, Md, native that he had won a five year, "no strings attached," $128,000 grant...
They also include the youngest MacArthur winner ever: David Stuart, 18, a junior fellow at the Dumbarton Oaks library and museum in Washington, D.C., and an expert in Mayan hieroglyphics. Stuart became fascinated by the "weird carvings" when at the age of nine he accompanied his archaeologist father on a dig in Mexico...
...Moncada, who claimed to have been working as a double agent: she said a CIA agent recruited her last year in Honduras, where she was stationed at the Nicaraguan embassy. Cerna showed off an espionage kit allegedly provided Moncada by the CIA (Sony short-wave radio, edible paper, hollow Mayan book ends containing codebooks), as well as photographs of her meeting with Rodriguez and a color videotape montage of various other rendezvous. (The Sandinistas displayed a funny show-biz bent: the video agitprop had a musical sound track appropriate for a spy movie...
...Corinthians 3 for 600 fellow congregants, they flew on Air Force Two to Palm Springs for an idyl with Publisher Walter Annenberg. The royals' limousine wheeled into the driveway just past the intersection of Bob Hope Drive and Frank Sinatra Drive, beyond the 30-ft-tall reproduction Mayan column and within view of the three flags: Old Glory, the Union Jack and Annenberg's personal banner, a yellow Mayan rune against a white background. Annenberg, 74, spent 5½ years as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Sunnylands is a modernist San Simeon...