The Manipulators
December, 1957
If You Are a junior executive or middle management man being considered for promotion, the pleasant fellow sharing martinis with you – chatting casually about seemingly trivial, unrelated topics, ordering rounds of drinks until you become mellow and expansive and relaxed – may be a hired mind-prober, an Mr man. That innocent-looking form you are asked to fill out and those inkblots you are asked to interpret and any other tests excluding the purely physical to which you are subjected will, in al...
