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Article September 24, 1979 Issue

Good intention or firm resolve?

ELEANOR YOUNG CLAPP

In the next aisle of a supermarket, I once heard this exchange between a small child and his mother:

"Jimmy, don't pull those cans off the shelves." Pause.

"Did you hear me? I said, 'Don't do that.' " Pause.

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