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It is reliably reported that the 180 toilers of the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration will finish up their duties and close up shop, oh, along in 1977, sometime, probably.

The National Education Association, composed of 1.8 million teachers, is preparing to endorse Jimmy Carter later this summer. Although the organization has in the past eschewed partisan politics, it has been made despondent of late by two Republican Presidents insufficiently solicitous of the educational pork barrel. Perhaps, if he becomes President, Carter, who supports the public employment scheme laid out in the Humphrey-Hawkins bill, will be willing to repay the NEA by supporting the introduction into the public schools of courses—for credit, of course—in square dancing, rattlesnake kissing, and grape-juice making, together with the institution of teacher-training programs aimed at producing qualified instructors for such courses.

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It is reliably reported that the 180 toilers of the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration will finish up their duties and close up shop, oh, along in 1977, sometime, probably.

The National Education Association, composed of 1.8 million teachers, is preparing to endorse Jimmy Carter later this summer. Although the organization has in the past eschewed partisan politics, it has been made despondent of late by two Republican Presidents insufficiently solicitous of the educational pork barrel. Perhaps, if he becomes President, Carter, who supports the public employment scheme laid out in the Humphrey-Hawkins bill, will be willing to repay the NEA by supporting the introduction into the public schools of courses—for credit, of course—in square dancing, rattlesnake kissing, and grape-juice making, together with the institution of teacher-training programs aimed at producing qualified instructors for such courses.