BOARDS & BUREAUS: Man of Faith

BOARDS & BUREAUS

The old man leaned back in his rocker, his bald head resting against the white embroidered antimacassar. His shirt was open at the neck, his belt loosened, his black shoes unlaced. His grey eyes peered through the windows of his comfortable house to the shade trees on Washington's drowsy Hobart Street. Now, he thought, there would be time to dabble in the tiny home laboratory, to spade and weed the small backyard garden.

Such was retirement last week for John Robbins Mohler, 68, head of the U.S. Bureau of Animal Industry, a man who never wanted another title but...

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