BOOKING KING'S KILLER • • ...Or Maybe Ayn Fleming? Was the murderer of Dr. ers are politicians, bureaucrats, Martin Luther King Jr. a man self-styled intellectuals who are , influenced by two characters in evil and must be destroyed. Galt 1 contemporary fiction—one a glo- denounces mysticism and glori- I rified individualist who hates so- fies reason. His gospel is aboli- ciety and the other an Ian Flem- ti-m of the income tax, an end to ing arch villain? foreign aid and of social welfare legislation. At the end, as Galt The name of the man listed on and his cohorts fly to their At- the registration card of the car linked to the lantis they see New York writh- white Mustang ing in its last convulsions. slaying is "Eric Slarvo Galt." The FBI has been unable to find Ernst Stavro Blofeld is the an,thing to indicate that any. inuch-less philosophical villain sueh a person exists. of "Thunderball" and two other Fleming novels. Ili Ayn Rand's 1937 novel, "At- las Shrugged," the leader of a If the man who murderL tiny minority of people de- King was influenced by tie scribed as able, creative and ul- views of the fictional characters tra-conservative is "John Galt," or even just concocted an alia. And in some of Ian Fleming's from a combination of th James Bond stories, the leading names, an investigator migh enemy of the status quo is called An artist's unofficial concep- draw the conclusion that the fu "Ernst Stavro Blofeld." tion of Galt. gitive is a man of some educe Ayn Rand's novel begins with tion or affinity for reading. Per- the quote: "Who is John Galt?", version is that the competent sons who claim to have seen the but the character remains hid-' men of the world are vanishing suspect, before and after the den from the reader for over while the greedy incompetents April 4 assassination, describe half the book, at %%bleb time he are taking over. The disappear.; him as neatly dressed and appears and delivers a scorch- ance of the competent "objecliv- well-spoken. irfg denunciation of society that Las" is part of their plot against; There is sonic speculation that runs sonic 80 pages of mono- the looters and parasites be- he is a professional killer, rather lque. Icause the able men are cow! than an "amateur." But fediral '.the literary "Galt" lives in winced society must collapst:l investigators studying the miryte the United States of the future in before there can be a healthy' details of the case say th !re wh'xh the economy is myster- social order. is no reason to put more ce iously declining. Eiss Band's To the fictional Galt, the loot- dem in one idea than the other. PAGE_ THE V:ASII:W.P...”1 POST L., A TIMES lizrao SEARCHED ..... SERIALticr177/1/4-, THE Ettr::::a iM APR 1 8'968 THE :AAR THE w;itgz.;;I CA:LY HEWS wAswri:',10:1-MFO AV,ERICAN . • , . • v. 0 - ri .