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.
¶ There are 237 elementary school classes with 40 or...
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