The Board of Education of the nation's largest and sickest school system last week was awash in a mire of corruption and politics. New York's Democratic Mayor Robert F. Wagner, running for reelection, needed a show of indignant action to drown out the crescendo of scandals in school construction that took place under the nine-man board (which he appointed). He set about dumping the board, and five agreed to go. Governor Nelson Rockefeller, aroused by the school mess (and bucking for Wagner's Republican opponent, State Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz), called on the...
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