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...Design School has been the center of controversy in recent months as the Organization for Black Unity focused on the school's Gund Hall construction project as a site of alleged racist hiring practices by Harvard. OBU has demanded that 20 per cent of Harvard's work force be black or "third-world" workers...
...looks like an ordinary beanbag, orange, pink or candy-striped. But when a concealed button is tapped, a battery-operated three-inch plastic disk turns on, and there is no turning off the heehaws for half a minute. "We sell happiness," says Sammy Kay, vice president of the Gund Manufacturing Co. and chief purveyor of the laughing bag, a brand of happiness that costs about $5. Gund has been putting laughing boxes inside stuffed animals since 1954, but it wasn't until this year that the company sent them out to go it alone. "Our first buyers," Kay reports...
Legal Battles. In the 30 years Kay has been with Gund, the company's biggest hits have been a floppy slumber dog called "Regal Beagle" and a series of Walt Disney stuffed toys. But this -"it's incredible," moans the 54-year-old laugh tycoon. To keep on top of orders, Kay has stopped commuting to his home in The Bronx and has taken a hotel room near his shabby Fifth Avenue showroom. "It's impossible," he adds. "It's just like a tornado...
...obstructed, perhaps unwisely, because he had identified himself with the University's racist employment policies by speaking at a news conference on November 11 with the University Personnel Director to "explain" the painters' helper issue. No classes are taught in University Hall, the Faculty Club, or the Gund Hall construction site...
...Slotnik Construction Co.-contractors for the Gund Hall project-notified the Council of the change on Monday; the Council took "grateful notice" of the action...