Documento 2 - Chapter five

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Contains items relating to Pick's early assignment as UN correspondent for The Guardian.

Records include: Pick's press pass and one sheet itinerary for the 'Belgrade Conference' [Summit Conference of Heads of State or Government of the Non-Aligned Movement] in 1961; letters sent from Pick to her mother during her first few months stay in New York as UN correspondent, subjects include day to day life in New York, living arrangements, reporting from the UN, dinners and social events attended, and brief mentions of stories covered including 'The Congo Crisis' and nuclear debates, 1961; a letter to Pick's mother from close friend Grete Marmorek, undated; a list of attendees on President JF Kennedy's press trip to Hyannisport, Massachusetts, 10-11 May 1963; and a note dictated by Alastair Hetherington concerning a Polaris story by Pick, February 1963.

The file also includes newspaper cuttings of some of her own articles from 1961 to 1963 covering the topics of US social politics, the Cuban Missile Crisis, nuclear arms, Lissa-Maria PiIla, U Thant at the UN and the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama.