People: Nov. 17, 1967

"You've heard the expression run for your life," cried Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, 47. "Well, let's run." With that, the Secretary shuffled off on a two-mile lope along the Potomac, followed in lemming-like procession by 40 other fitness kooks. Object was to publicize the health-giving joys of jogging. "It's the best form of exercise there is," said Udall, who has established four "jogging trails" in Washington parks. The only drawback, as jogging Devotee Judy Schwartz, 28, noted, "is that people think you are nuts."

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