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Issuing a fat, 140-page annual report to the City Council last week, New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner plainly meant to point with pride to municipal progress under his administration. But what Bumbling Bob inadvertently achieved was something quite different: an ugly picture of a city in which hundreds of thousands live amid squalor, disease and violence. Items...
...Overall street cleanliness, Wagner boasted, has risen from 56% in 1955 to 85% in 1960. Inescapable conclusion: 15% of the streets are dirty...
Commented Bob Wagner, who likes being mayor and is likely to run this year for a third term: "We do act to find solutions-even though we must often move in ways which are frustratingly slow." To which 7,781,984 residents of the nation's greatest city could only sadly agree...
Peering around at a Times Square depopulated by the nationwide civil defense alert last week (see cut), New York's Mayor Robert Wagner appeared wan and haggard. Wagner recently underwent an operation for a nonmalignant tumor, but his troubled look could have had another cause. With his political future-and a possible third term-already clouded over by a canyon-sized Democratic split between Tammany Hall and Manhattan reformers, Wagner was grimly aware that Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller's State Investigation Commission was pawing over his old friendship with George Sanders, owner of a sightseeing ship line that...
Waxing bullish on Republican chances in Manhattan's mayoralty election next November, F.D.R.'s only G.O.P. son, Manhattan Brokerage House Executive John Roosevelt neglected to cull the army of possible candidates (of which he is one), instead nominated the Republicans' "best campaigner": Democratic Incumbent Robert Wagner, "because of his utter inefficiency, his barren planning, his total lack of leadership, and the long and sorrowful list of scandals that he has permitted to flower during the seven years he has hibernated at City Hall...