  The parton model, a zero-order approximation in many treatments, is shown to
be a ``semiclassical" model whose results for certain averages also hold
(correspondence principle) in quantum mechanics. Algebraic techniques developed
for the M\"ossbauer effect exploit simple features of commutators to obtain sum
rules showing the validity of the parton model for $b \rightarrow c$
semileptonic decays in the classical limit, $\hbar \rightarrow 0$, where all
commutators vanish, and in general, even when binding effects are included, for
the lowest moments of the lepton energy spectrum at fixed 3-momentum transfer.
Interference between the $u \bar u$ and $d \bar d$ components of the $\rho^o$
and $\omega$ wave functions can be used as clues to contributions from small
weak amplitudes and CP violation in decays to final states including these
vector mesons.
