Wednesday, October L, 1191,4 THE MIGHIUAN DAILY Page Three Wednesday, Uctober 4 I V I HE MIU-il(~AN DAiLY Pc*ge Three .Boy wants out of sealed bubble HOUSTON W - The boy in the bubble is beginning to want out and doctors now wonder "show long can you keep someone ;;",;:::,. ':,:<::._,. in a goldfish bowl?" D,>";: Sept. 21. He was born without natural body defenses against diseaseand has spent his entire life protected from disease by a germ-free plastic bubble filled with filtered air. His only physical contact with other humans is through the big black gloves which extend into his chamber. His food and toys are sterilized He sees his parents through a plastic wall. UNTIL RECENTLY, the boy has been content in his trans- parent cocoon, a plastic-walled playroom about nine feet long and almost seven feet wide. There is a tunnel-shaped annex at one end where he sleeps and watches television. Now, say his doctors, he's beginning to ask questions about the outside world, although his doctors say to leave his bubble would mean he would sooner or later develop a fatal infection. People Monday night to celebrate "It's only in the last month or six weeks that he's begun to think about getting out," Dr. David Freedman, a professor of psychiatry at the Baylor College of Medicine, "I think that the next step is his trying to remove himself from that room." Dr. John Montgomery, co-leader of David's medical team, says the boy might live for weeks outside the- bubble. "But j eventually," Montgomery says, "he would run into some organ- ve rsuajrism germ for which there is no treatment." Montgomery says the germ might be one with little effect world. on most people. But with no immune mechanism, David's de- fenses are minimal. two OBSERVERS NOTED t h a t DESPITE HIS bizarre environment, the doctors say David ore this sober assessment of China's is well developed physically, mentally and emotionally. He runs the potential progress contrasted around inside his bubble, playing with a ball and several plastic um- strikingly with the impression toys. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN : - - - - ----.. Day Calendar Wednesday, October 2 WUOM: Panel discussion, "What- ever Happened to ,the American Dream?" with A. Schlesinger Jr., author & historian, Wm. Ruckel- haus, former U. S. Deputy Attor- ney General, & host, Harrison Salis- bury, former N. Y. Times colum- nist, 9:45 am. Natural Resources: A. Cowan, "How Arteriosclerosis of Forest Management Policies. Raises the, Blood Pressure of Wildlife Mana- gers", 1040 Dana, 1 pm. Indochina Peace Campaign: Don, Rucknagel, P. Magnus, "Health and the War: Indochina", 3000 SPH I, 4 1042 E. Eng., 4-6 pm. Engineering, Computing Otr.: Brice Carnahan, "The FORTRAN IV Programming Language-lII", Nat. Sci. Aud., Kraus Bldg., 7:30-9:30 pm. Museum of Art: Walter M. Spink, "Far Eastern Aesthetics", Aud. A, Angell, 7:30 pm. Music School: University Philhar- monia, UriMayer, conductor, Hill Aud., 8 pm. General Notices Att. Students: Oct. 18, 1074,-3 pm. is the last date for the Fall Term when the Registrar's Office will &l- low refund for a S0 per cent With- drawal THIS IS A GENERAL view of the reception for 4,500 people at Peking's Great Hall of the the 25th anniversary of the People's Republic of China. pm. Employment Workshops for Pro- Appi. Mech., Eng. Sci: C. H. Mor- fessionais in Tech. Fields will be timer, dir., Ctr. Great Lakes Re- offered Oct. 15, 22, 24 by Engineer- search, U. of Wisconsin, "Oscilla- ing Society of Detroit; Registration, tory Response of Large Lakes to forms available at CP&P, 3200 SAB. Wind", 325 W. Eng., 4 pm. - Zoology: Moise H. Goldstein, Jr., Johns Hopkins U., "Studies of the. Mammalian Auditory Cortex", Lee. Rmn. 2, MLB, 4 pm. Statistics Seminar: Prof. Jaya- ram Sethuraman, Fla. State U., "On the Uniqueness of Large Deviation Indices of the Mena", 3227 Angell, 4W pm.; coffee hour precedes, 1447 Ma- son, 3:30 pm. Physics General Colloquium: T. W. Hansch, Stanford U., "High# M Resolution Atomic Spectroscopy with Dye Lasers"; P&A Colloq.Rm. 4 pm. our Botany Seminar: Profs., Wilbur C. Bigelow of Materials & Metal- lurgical Eng. & Peter B. Kaufman of Botany, "Scanning Electron Microscopy in Biological Studies", f THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PROFESSIONAL THEATRE PROGRAM City (enter Acting Company Series USHER APPLICATION 25 YEARS OF COMMUNISM: Ch ina marks anni PEKING (Reuter) - Chair- appearing at virtually all ma-day's festivities. man Mao Tse-Tung and Pre- jor public functions until he was mier Chou En-Lai failed to forced to curtail his activities ALTHOUGH THE big1 make public appearances in Pe- in early May because of ill were absent yesterday, m king yesterday as China cele- health. than a dozen members of brated 25 years of communist The Premier left the hospital ruling politburo, including ni rule. briefly last night to attend a ber three man Wang Hung-X The absence of the 80-year- glittering national day recep- and Mao's wife Chiang Ch old Mao and his ailing premier, tion at the Great Hall of the joined crowds watching so 76, served as a reminder that people and was given a stand- and-dance acts in the color the reins of power in China ing ovation by the 4,500 guests. ly decorated parks aroung. must before long pass to young- king. m hads. r g s y g But he returned to the hos-( er hands. pital immediately after the re- Flags, large paper lante ception and was evidently not and long streamers hung fr CHOU, WHO HAS been pre- well enough to attend yester- trees and ancient buildings mier for the past quarter cen- people watched cultural sho tury, had made a practice of bought ice cream and tried tf luck at the rows of fairgro THE MICHIGAN DAILY stands set up for the occas Volume LXXXV, No. 24A Wednesday, October 2, 1974 As Chia entered its sec is edited and managed by students t # quarter century under com: at the University of Michigan. 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