Business: Down to Earth

The stock market last week took its hardest fall in nearly four years, but picked itself up nimbly by week's end with only a few bruises. On the first day of trading, the Dow-Jones industrial average dropped 14.78 points. Not since President Eisenhower's heart attack in September 1955 had a market break been so sharp.

The hardest fall was taken by the highest flyers, the space-age electronics stocks, which have soared giddily in recent months. Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp. fell 23¾ points on the American Exchange. So great was the confusion when trading in Fairchild Camera was suspended temporarily that Exchange...

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