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...Roy 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...
...McNeelys had kin in Tucson, and Roy had always enjoyed Arizona, so he was delighted when a law-enforcement job opened up in nearby Tombstone. Tombstone had been around since 1877, when the discovery of silver deposits rushed it into being. Like so many other by now familiar Western mining towns, it had a brief population explosion, a flirt with naughty notoriety (in 1880 a good-hearted young local attorney made note of the fast life in the dance halls, saloons and casinos, then appended a letter home: "Still there is hope, for I know of two Bibles in town...
...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...
...Roy McNeely, tearing down a dirt road after two kids on unregistered, unlicensed, uninsured motorcycles, conceded there was 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...
...place for comparatively small shops. They can often best handle the needs of small to medium-size clients, which might get lost in the shuffle at a larger agency. Says Diane Rothschild, a former DDB executive vice president who formed a new company with ex-DDB Chairman Roy Grace this year: "The small agency offers the client hand-tailored, customized work." Boston-based Hill Holliday Connors Cosmopulus, with only $218 million in billings last year, won the prestigious Advertising Agency of the Year Award...