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Reston

American  
[res-tuhn] / ˈrɛs tən /

noun

  1. James (Barrett) Scotty, 1909–1995, U.S. journalist, born in Scotland.


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Town Center Drive in Santa Clarita and Birch Street Promenade in Brea are smaller examples of the town center concept that dates to the early 1990s, after the success of Reston Town Center in Virginia.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 13, 2026

Witness the private letters and memos of big time, Cold War-era reporters like the Times’s Scotty Reston, CBS’s Eric Sevareid and Chalmers Roberts of the Washington Post.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 28, 2025

He stopped using models with low body mass indexes when one - Ana Carolina Reston - died of anorexia.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2025

Three former Abu Ghraib detainees sued Reston, Virginia-based contractor CACI, which supplied civilian interrogators to the prison in 2003 and 2004.

From Seattle Times May 1, 2024

“How was it?” asked New York Times reporter James Reston, who’d arranged to interview Kennedy after the meeting.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

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