Elliott Roosevelt peered ahead at life without price controls, reported back: "You will see bread at $15 a loaf." Robert M. Hutchins, chancellor of the University of Chicago, peeked around the atomic corner and saw "an era of leisure and plenty," but he was not happy. "If we are not all killed in the next few years," he declared, "we will be bored to death." George Santayana, 83-year-old poet-philosopher, now resident in Italy, guessed:"I won't live to see it, but I believe that Russia soon may dominate all of Europe with Germany...
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