Word: dumbarton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seek the Unhappy. Scotty Reston's first big break came in 1944 after he had moved to the Times's Washington bureau. The Allied powers were meeting at Dumbarton Oaks, in Georgetown, to think about organized world security. Employing his theory that "you should always look around for the guys who are unhappy," Reston found them among the Chinese. Their unhappiness was translated, by Reston persuasion, into a stunning gift: the entire position papers of the Allied powers attending the conference. This was a smashing scoop, and any other reporter probably would have hurled the caboodle onto Page...
...array of Dumbarton Oaks exclusives elevated Reston to the top rank of Washington correspondents. Other exclusive stories followed with impressive rapidity. At the San Francisco United Nations conference in 1945, the press corps gathered for an important press conference at which the key figure was Britain's Anthony Eden. The Times expected Reston to handle the story, but he could not be found. Then a door opened, and Eden strolled in chatting confidentially with a man at his side-Scotty Reston...