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BOODIL MY DOG by Pija Lindenbaum, retold by Gabrielle Charbonnet (Henry Holt; $14.95). Here is a bull terrier with real star power. As the perky illustrations demonstrate, she sleeps all day, hogs the best chair, is afraid of rain and regards the vacuum cleaner as an enemy. Yet the child narrator looks upon her pet as a blend of heroine and best friend. Boodil would agree, and so will any reader with a lazy and lovable mutt...
...Safe Streets Act gave federal investigators vastly expanded authority to use taps-as long as they were personally approved by the Attorney General or a specially designated assistant. But dozens of authorizations, including those in the Giordano case, were simply initialed "JNM" by an obscure Mitchell aide named Sol Lindenbaum, or sometimes by Lindenbaum's secretary. That irregularity, the court concluded, was no mere technicality. Congress plainly meant to "narrowly confine" the use of electronic eavesdropping, wrote Justice Byron White in the unanimous opinion. Thus Congress had been careful to require that "the mature judgment of a particular, responsible...
...could the Attorney General have overlooked such a clearly stated legal responsibility? Though Mitchell himself was saying nothing, others have not been so reticent. Aide Lindenbaum bluntly blames the foul-up on Mitchell's overwhelming preoccupation with political concerns-particularly with promoting the Administration's law-and-order image. As Lindenbaum has been telling it, Mitchell never bothered to authorize any one of his eight Assistant Attorneys General to sign wiretap requests; he apparently wanted to sign them himself-the better to enhance his chosen political pose as a tough, sleeves-up crime fighter. So, at first, Lindenbaum...
...stag luncheon in a Brooklyn restaurant last week, Abraham M. Lindenbaum, a member of the New York City Planning Commission, rose up over the coffee cups and asked the 43 guests how much they were prepared to contribute to Mayor Robert Wagner's campaign for reelection. Each guest stood up in turn and announced his pledge. In the end, the mayor's campaign purse was some $25,000 heavier. Not one of the guests-all builders and real estate men, many of whom do business with the city-failed to pledge at least $100, and some offered...
Ushers from Kirkland House are Edward Martin, John B. Watkins, Peter A. Lindenbaum, Robert W. Adams, David M. Balbanian, Charles N. Steele, Derek T. Winans, Glen E. Clover, and Alan K. Percy. Those from Leverett are Michael Graney, Alan H. Grossman, Edward L. Croman, Joseph H. Gardner, Peter H. Brown, Christopher T. Bayley, Reverdy Johnson, Jr., Sheldon Greenfield, Charles E. Lister, Robert N. Fisher, Robert S. Lawrence, and Rodney D. Hardy...