Word: marshaled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...McNeely is pleased that after a career as a truck driver and a guitar player he has hit on a role that carries some celebrity. Roy remembers Hugh O'Brian playing Wyatt Earp on television, and Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp in the movie. Earp was a deputy marshal in Tombstone, the dust-blown Arizona town best known for a gunfight that gave him his fame, the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Today McNeely is Tombstone's marshal. Tourists often ask him for his autograph, and he is flattered...
...marshal's job turned over twice before McNeely took his own shot at it. He won the two-year appointment from the mayor and town council in November 1984. At the time he made a commitment to himself to clean up Tombstone and stick there; he was tired of his tumbleweed life...
...town making do, that is what it was, unaware of its loose ways until Roy McNeely rolled up in a 1973 Winnebago, for which he had traded a motorcycle, a sidecar and $1,200. Nowadays, even the townsfolk who back the new marshal say that his zealotry riles 50% of their lot. City Councilman Martin Devere, a businessman whose charges include Boothill cemetery, and a McNeely supporter, says that "anyone good in that job is bound to ruffle feathers." A local innkeeper says flatly, "I think he's an egomaniac. We had a little fender bender out front here...
...some resistance to his policies at first. "Some people called me a little dictator, a little Hitler," he said. "I was fighting tooth and nail to clean up the department, and it seemed like everything I did got blowed out of proportion. It was all over hell." The marshal expertly maneuvered his squad car into a position to cut off the young bikers. Both got off with warnings, and the admonition that failure to correct their legal obligations would amount to $700 in fines next time...
stance, protesters erected mock shantytowns. When a fire marshal ordered the shanties demolished as a hazard, the battle was joined. As in the 1960s' protests, many of those arrested were not Berkeley students...