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...year was 1964 when Edward ("Ned") Coll, an idealistic 24, left his promising job as a junior executive with a Hartford, Conn., insurance firm to found a social-action agency. Professionals and family were not amused. "It will take $80,000 to get started, and don't count on volunteers," gruffed the local antipoverty chief. When he started going around to newspapers to sell his cause, his father, a retired postal clerk, would call ahead and warn the editor that Ned was not to be taken seriously...
Armed with $1,100 in savings and a vision of ending racial enmity by bringing white and black together, Coll pressed on. He rented a storefront office with a telephone. He gave his outfit a name with a resonantly contemporary ring: "The Revitalization Corps, America's Citizen Peace Corps." He dreamed up zingy program monikers like "Operation Amigo," and zealously advertised for volunteers. His guiding conviction was simple: "Most of the people in this country, black and white, want an integrated society...
Ghetto and Guard. In the past two weeks, for example, Coll talked Hartford car dealers into sponsoring an outing for several hundred ghetto kids in Rocky Neck State Park, and threw an interracial picnic that drew 2,000 suburban and ghetto residents. He arranged for a National Guard medical team on its two-week active-duty tour to visit his office and give physical examinations to 50 ghetto children bound for 4-H camp. Says Coll: "It was about time the ghetto saw the Guard in a nonriot situation...
...jail, two tactical squad members who were standing outside in the parking lot-probably fondling motorcycles-maced a whole coll full of kids through the window for a joke. All down the cellblock word was passed and we began screaming and beating on the metal walls of the cells. And a sergeant came running down the cellblock, at that moment, throwing cigarettes-which we had wanted all day-into the cells at us, telling us to calm down and that everything would be all right. And if it were fascism, there would be no cigarettes, and we would...
...Coll Paul Feeney deputy state director of the Selective Service, said last week that "our attitude is that if a card is reported turned in, we cannot assume that the registrant turned it in. He might have dropped it and someone else could have picked it up. Or it might not be a valid card...