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University Marshal Richard M. Hunt has given $2000 to the campaign of Richard W. Fisher '71, a Democrat trailing far behind U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison...
Kimball has been a prominent student on campus. He is active in Democratic politics and ran--unsuccessfully--for senior class marshal this year...
Rehling and other friends of Cole, who was a finalist in senior class marshal voting, said the student is generally easy-going. They said Cole would not have complained unless Nini's actions were unusually egregious...
Upon returning to their cattle later that night, the Earps find that James has been murdered, and their cattle rustled. Bent on taming Tombstone and seeking revenge for the murder of his brother, Wyatt decides to take the job as marshal and hires his two brothers as deputies. Talking to his brother's grave, Wyatt speaks of his desire to clean up the town, "Maybe when we leave this country, young kids like you will be able to grow up and live safe." With this, Wyatt is established as the moral center of the film...
Henry Fonda is especially persuasive as the quiet, dignified marshal. It is very similar in its understatement to the role he played equally well in Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West." Both required Fonda to take on a stark, but powerful persona. The relationship he forges with Doc Holliday's former fiancee Clementine Carter (Cathey Downs) is noteworthy because it is one of the few times this mythical hero bares his human side. While Wyatt Earp is always under control as he approaches danger, it is a woman who takes him off guard...